A skin microRNA promotes differentiation by repressing 'stemness'

Nature

Volumn 452, Issue 7184, 2008, Pages 225-229

  Yi, Rui ^a   Poy, Matthew N ^b   Stoffel, Markus ^b   Fuchs, Elaine ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICER; DICER 1; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 203; PROTEIN P63; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; RNA; SKIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDERMIS; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SKIN; STEM CELL; VERTEBRATE;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 40749111551     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06642     Document Type: Article

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