MicroRNAs and cancer

Seminars in Cancer Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 253-258

  McManus, Michael T ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

bHLH; Bic; Cancer; His 1; MicroRNA; mir 142; mir 15; mir 155; mir 16; miRNA; Notch; Oncogenesis; RNAi

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; MAX PROTEIN; MICRORNA; ONCOPROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME 13Q; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; DOWN REGULATION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; LEUKEMOGENESIS; MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; ONCOGENE; ONCOGENE C MYC; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0345818258     PISSN: 1044579X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1044-579X(03)00038-5     Document Type: Article

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