Expression patterns of placental microRNAs

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 737-743

  Mouillet, Jean Francois ^a   Chu, Tianjiao ^a   Sadovsky, Yoel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal growth restriction; Hypoxia; MicroRNA; Normalization; Placenta; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PLACENTA; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 79961165303     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20782     Document Type: Review

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