MicroRNAs: Components of an integrated system controlling cardiac development, physiology, and disease pathogenesis

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 551-552

  Condorelli, Gianluigi ^a,b   Dimmeler, Stefanie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b IRCCS MULTIMEDICA   (Italy)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL STRUCTURE; EDITORIAL; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL;

EID: 52449131190     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: 17553245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvn189     Document Type: Editorial

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