Advances in microRNAs: Implications for gene therapists

Human Gene Therapy

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-37

  Marquez, Rebecca T ^a   McCaffrey, Anton P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VIRUS VECTOR;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; APOPTOSIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE;

GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 38649140462     PISSN: 10430342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/hum.2007.147     Document Type: Review

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