MicroRNAs: Fundamental facts and involvement in human diseases

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 180-189

  Leva, Gianpiero Di ^a   Calin, George A ^a   Croce, Carlo M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE CHANNEL; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; RAS PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALGORITHM; BASE PAIRING; BIOGENESIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DIGEORGE SYNDROME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENOMICS; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE TARGETING; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33747135409     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20073     Document Type: Review

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