MicroRNAs in cancer

Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 199-227

  Yong, Sun Lee ^a   Dutta, Anindya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis and prognosis; MicroRNA expression profile; Oncogene; Therapy; Tumor suppressor; Tumorigenesis

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN P53; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LET 7; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MIR 155; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MIR 17; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MIR 34; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MIR 92; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; TUMOR MARKER;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DEATH; CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; METASTASIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; ONCOGENE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RIBONUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAY; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SERIAL ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION; VIRUS; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE THERAPY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE THERAPY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEOPLASMS; PHENOTYPE; PROGNOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 66149138833     PISSN: 15534006     EISSN: 15534014     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.pathol.4.110807.092222     Document Type: Review

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