MicroRNAs as new players in the genomic galaxy and disease puzzles

Clinical and Translational Science

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 50-56

  Barbarotto, Elisa ^a   Secchiero, Paola ^a   Dasgupta, Abhijit ^c   Fortina, Paolo ^c,d   Calin, George A ^b   Hyslop, Terry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cancer; Heart disease; microRNA; miRNA gene expression

Indexed keywords

ANTAGOMIR; ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE 3 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE 4 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DEAD BOX PROTEIN 20; DICER; EXPORTIN 5; LOCKED NUCLEIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MIR 142; MIR 145; MIR 155; MIR 15A; MIR 16 1; MIR 18; MIR 20A; MIR 21; MIR 221; MIR 34A; MIR 373; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN DROSHA; RNA HELICASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RELATED APOPTOSIS INDUCING LIGAND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; APOPTOSIS; BIOGENESIS; CANCER INHIBITION; CARCINOGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GLIOMA; HEART DISEASE; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; VIRUS INFECTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; PROCEDURES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENOMICS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77953406200     PISSN: 17528054     EISSN: 17528062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-8062.2008.00028.x     Document Type: Review

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