Cloning and expression profiling of testis-expressed microRNAs

Developmental Biology

Volumn 311, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 592-602

  Ro, Seungil ^a   Park, Chanjae ^a   Sanders, Kenton M ^a   McCarrey, John R ^b   Yan, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Germ cells; microRNAs; Non coding RNAs; Small RNAs; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND; EXON; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; VALIDATION PROCESS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 35948980404     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.09.009     Document Type: Article

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