MicroRNAs in vertebrate development

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 410-415

  Harfe, Brian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; MICRORNA;

ADIPOCYTE MEMBRANE; ANGIOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO DEATH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GLUCONEOGENESIS; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HOX GENE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LETHALITY; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL BIOSENSOR; ORGANOGENESIS; PANCREAS CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; TISSUE MICROARRAY;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICRORNAS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 22144477115     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2005.06.012     Document Type: Review

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