MicroRNAs as promising biomarkers for diagnosing human cancer

Cancer Investigation

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 670-671

  Huang, Yuchuan ^a,b   Yang, Shujuan ^c   Zhang, Jie ^b   Tan, Lanlan ^a   Jiang, Fenglin ^b   Li, Ning ^a   Cheng, Jingqiu ^b   Lu, Yanrong ^b   Dai, Ya ^a  

^a China Tobacco Chuanyu Industrial Corporation   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; TUMOR MARKER;

BIOINFORMATICS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RESEARCH; CARCINOGENESIS; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STABILITY; SOLID TUMOR; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEOPLASMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77953199431     PISSN: 07357907     EISSN: 15324192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07357901003631064     Document Type: Letter

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