MicroRNAs and their emerging roles in immunology

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1143, Issue , 2008, Pages 226-239

  Pauley, Kaleb M ^a   Chan, Edward K L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

GW body; MicroRNA; RNA interference

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MICRORNA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; VIRUS RNA;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BIOGENESIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GENETICS; CELL MATURATION; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOGENETICS; MATURATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA VIRUS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

EID: 56549113539     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1443.009     Document Type: Review

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