Fine-tuning the brain: MicroRNAs

Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 128-133

  Vreugdenhil, Erno ^a   Berezikov, Eugene ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Development; Feedback loop; Glucocorticoids; MicroRNA; Neurogenesis; Non coding RNA; Plasticity; Signaling; Translation

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; RNA; STEROID;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL SPECIFICITY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEUROGENESIS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 77950864963     PISSN: 00913022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2009.08.001     Document Type: Review

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