Update on the development of microRNA and siRNA molecules as regulators of cell physiology

Recent Patents on DNA and Gene Sequences

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 113-121

  Laitala Leinonen, Tiina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cancer; miRNA; RNAi; siRNA; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE II; FOMIVIRSEN; GLUCAN; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1; MICRORNA; PROTEIN BCL 2; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SURVIVIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

AMYLOIDOSIS; ANTISENSE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; BIOINFORMATICS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RESISTANCE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; IMMUNOGENETICS; LIVER CANCER; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PATENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STEM CELL;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEOPLASMS; PATENTS AS TOPIC; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; STEM CELLS;

EID: 78649645700     PISSN: 18722156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/187221510793205755     Document Type: Article

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