MicroRNA as modulators of neuronal responses

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 411-413

  Khudayberdiev, Sharof ^a,b   Fiore, Roberto ^a,b   Schratt, Gerhard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dendrite; Mef2; MiRNA; Neuron; Plasticity; Pumilio

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951259728     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.2.5.8834     Document Type: Note

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