Impact of tiny miRNAs on cancers

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 497-502

  Liu, Wei ^a   Mo, Sheng Yong ^a   Zhu, Wei Yun ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cancers; miRNA expression signature; miRNAs; Oncogenes and repressors; Tumorigenesis

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; DICER; DRASHA; EXPORTIN 5; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN GAMMA SUBUNIT; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; HELICASE; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN D; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MICRORNA; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PROCOLLAGEN C PROTEINASE; PROTEIN MIR 143; PROTEIN MIR 145; PROTEIN MIR 15A; PROTEIN MIR 16A; PROTEIN P21; PROTEIN P53; RAF PROTEIN; RHO KINASE; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VAV PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; APOPTOSIS; B CELL LEUKEMIA; BASE PAIRING; CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; ONCOGENE C FOS; ONCOGENE C MYC; ONCOGENE K RAS; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RNA CAPPING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE;

EID: 33846815148     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v13.i4.497     Document Type: Review

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