microRNAs: Tiny RNA molecules, huge driving forces to move the cell

Protein and Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 916-926

  Huang, Shenglin ^a   He, Xianghuo ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

cell migration; metastasis; microRNA

Indexed keywords

ADAM10 ENDOPEPTIDASE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 8; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 1; MICRORNA 125; MICRORNA 138; MICRORNA 146A; MICRORNA 17; MICRORNA 183; MICRORNA 199A 3P; MICRORNA 20; MICRORNA 205; MICRORNA 206; MICRORNA 21; MICRORNA 221; MICRORNA 222; MICRORNA 23B; MICRORNA 29C; MICRORNA 31; MICRORNA 34A; MICRORNA 9; MICRORNA LET 7G; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SCATTER FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA CONVERTING ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN;

CELL ADHESION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE CONTROL; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 79953148693     PISSN: 1674800X     EISSN: 16748018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13238-010-0116-9     Document Type: Review

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