MicroRNAs as regulatory molecules in cancer: a focus on models defining miRNA functions

Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-19

  Abba, Mohammed ^a,b   Allgayer, Heike ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCR ABL PROTEIN; DNA; EXPORTIN 5; MICRORNA; PROTEIN BCL 2; RAN PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA PRECURSOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F1;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL DIVISION; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; COMPUTER MODEL; DISEASE MODEL; DNA REPLICATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 77949491571     PISSN: 17406757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ddmod.2009.01.002     Document Type: Review

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