miRNAs: Effectors of environmental influences on gene expression and disease

Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 228-240

  Hudder, Alice ^a   Novak, Raymond F ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytochrome P450; Micro RNAs; Polysomes; Signaling; Toxicants; Translational control

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; CYTOCHROME P450 1B1; CYTOCHROME P450 2B; CYTOCHROME P450 2E1; DNA; HISTONE; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; PROTEIN P53;

BIOGENESIS; CELL STRESS; COLD STRESS; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOXICOGENETICS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; XENOBIOTIC METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CELL PHYSIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; DISEASE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOXICOGENETICS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 43349090926     PISSN: 10966080     EISSN: 10960929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfn033     Document Type: Review

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