MicroRNAs: novel therapeutic targets in neurodegenerative diseases

Drug Discovery Today

Volumn 14, Issue 23-24, 2009, Pages 1123-1129

  Roshan, Reema ^a   Ghosh, Tanay ^a   Scaria, Vinod ^a   Pillai, Beena ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; ATAXIN 1; ATAXIN 3; HUNTINGTIN; MICRORNA; TATA BINDING PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATAXIA; BIOINFORMATICS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DENTATORUBROPALLIDOLUYSIAN ATROPHY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC MODEL; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RETINA DEGENERATION; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

EID: 71749092463     PISSN: 13596446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2009.09.009     Document Type: Review

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