MicroRNAs and other small silencing RNAs in cancer

IUBMB Life

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 859-868

  Rovira, Carlos ^a   Güida, Maria C ^b   Cayota, Alfonso ^b,c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE MONTEVIDEO   (Uruguay)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

cancer biology; microRNA; noncoding small RNAs; oncogenes; tumor suppressors

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GENOMIC RNA; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 10B; MICRORNA 126; MICRORNA 155; MICRORNA 15A; MICRORNA 16 1; MICRORNA 17-92; MICRORNA 200; MICRORNA 206; MICRORNA 21; MICRORNA 29; MICRORNA 31; MICRORNA 335; MICRORNA 34; MICRORNA 373; MICRORNA 520C; MICRORNA LET 7A; PROTEIN P53; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOGENESIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER THERAPY; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; DRUG TARGETING; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE LOCUS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICRORNAS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79952028844     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: 15216551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iub.399     Document Type: Review

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