MicroRNAs: New regulators of immune cell development and function

Nature Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 839-845

  Baltimore, David ^a   Boldin, Mark P ^a   O'Connell, Ryan M ^a   Rao, Dinesh S ^a,b   Taganov, Konstantin D ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFECTION; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; INFLAMMATION; MICRORNAS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 47849125676     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni.f.209     Document Type: Review

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