MicroRNAs profiling in murine models of acute and chronic asthma: A relationship with mRNAs targets

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Garbacki, Nancy ^a   di Valentin, Emmanuel ^a   Huynh Thu, Vân Anh ^a   Geurts, Pierre ^a   Irrthum, Alexandre ^a   Crahay, Céline ^a   Arnould, Thierry ^b   Deroanne, Christophe ^a   Piette, Jacques ^a   Cataldo, Didier ^a   Colige, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; COLLAGEN; FIBRONECTIN; INTERLEUKIN 3; LAMININ; LUCIFERASE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MICRORNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALLERGIC REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS CONCERNING THE ENTIRE ORGANISM; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CONTACT SENSITIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; PROTEIN METABOLISM; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; LUNG; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY;

MURINAE; MUS;

ANIMALS; ASTHMA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; INFLAMMATION; LUNG; MICE; MICRORNAS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 79551565924     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016509     Document Type: Article

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