Concise review: MicroRNA expression in multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells

Stem Cells

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 356-363

  Lakshmipathy, Uma ^a   Hart, Ronald P ^b  

^a INVITROGEN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Gene regulation; Human mesenchymal stem cells; MicroRNA; Review

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MICRORNA; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADULT STEM CELL; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL RENEWAL; CELL TYPE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; EUKARYOTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETICS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NEMATODE; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PREDICTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STROMA CELL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ADULT STEM CELLS; ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; STROMAL CELLS;

EUKARYOTA; NEMATODA;

EID: 40949114603     PISSN: 10665099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/stemcells.2007-0625     Document Type: Review

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