miRNA modulation of the cellular stress response

Future Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 289-298

  Babar, Imran A ^a   Slack, Frank J ^a   Weidhaas, Joanne B ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer therapies; Cellular stress response; Genotoxic; let 7; miR 34; miRNA

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; PROTEIN P53; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BINDING SITE; BIOGENESIS; CANCER THERAPY; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CYTOPLASM; DNA DAMAGE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GENOTOXICITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TARGETING; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; REVIEW; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ANIMAL; CELL FUNCTION; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL PHYSIOLOGY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MICE; MICRORNAS; OXIDATIVE STRESS;

EID: 43049101535     PISSN: 14796694     EISSN: 17448301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/14796694.4.2.289     Document Type: Review

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