High-throughput experimental studies to identify miRNA targets directly, with special focus on the mammalian brain

Brain Research

Volumn 1338, Issue , 2010, Pages 122-130

  Nelson, Peter T ^a   Kiriakidou, Marianthi ^a   Mourelatos, Zissimos ^a   Tan, Grace S ^a   Jennings, Mary H ^a   Xie, Kevin ^a   Wang, Wang Xia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's; Argonaute; Assay; Brain; eif2c; Granulin; GRN; Microarray; MicroRNAs; miR 107; miR 124; mRNA; Neurodegeneration; Neuron; Target

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA;

ALGORITHM; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COMPUTERS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MICRORNAS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77952675690     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.03.108     Document Type: Review

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