Developmental microRNA expression profiling of murine embryonic orofacial tissue

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 511-534

  Mukhopadhyay, Partha ^a   Brock, Guy ^a   Pihur, Vasyl ^a   Webb, Cynthia ^a   Pisano, M Michele ^a   Greene, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Fetal; Microarray; MicroRNA; Orofacial

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRANCHIAL ARCH; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CRANIOFACIAL DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO MEMBRANE; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE TARGETING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; OROFACIAL DEVELOPMENT; PALATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; EMBRYOLOGY; FACE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH MOUSE; METABOLISM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUTH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FACE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICRORNAS; MOUTH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 77954716983     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20684     Document Type: Article

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