An elegant miRror: microRNAs in stem cells, developmental timing and cancer

Chromosoma

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 405-418

  Nimmo, Rachael A ^a   Slack, Frank J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN LET 7; PROTEIN LIN 28; PROTEIN LIN 29; PROTEIN LIN 4; PROTEIN LIN 41; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DAF 12; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; TRIPARTITE MOTIF PROTEIN 5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL RENEWAL; DOWN REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; STEM CELL; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; STEM CELLS; TIME FACTORS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 67649556287     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: 14320886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-009-0210-z     Document Type: Review

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