MicroRNAs as cancer players: Potential clinical and biological effects

DNA and Cell Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 273-282

  Bandres Elizalde, Eva ^a,b   Agirre, Xabier ^a   Ramirez, Natalia ^a   Zarate, Ruth ^a   Garcia Foncillas, Jesus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPREHENSION; CORRELATION FUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KNOWLEDGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL GROWTH PROCESSES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE THERAPY; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34249061737     PISSN: 10445498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/dna.2006.0544     Document Type: Article

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