MicroRNAs and their role in gynecological tumors

Medicinal Research Reviews

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 895-923

  Torres, Anna ^a   Torres, Kamil ^a,b   Maciejewski, Ryszard ^a,c   Harvey, William H ^d  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^b Lublin County Specialist Hospital   (Poland)

^c Medical Emergency Department   (Poland)

^d EARLHAM COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Endometrial cancer; Leiomyoma; MicroRNA; Ovarian cancer

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 100; MICRORNA 122; MICRORNA 125B; MICRORNA 125B1; MICRORNA 134; MICRORNA 140; MICRORNA 141; MICRORNA 145; MICRORNA 15; MICRORNA 155; MICRORNA 16; MICRORNA 199A; MICRORNA 200A; MICRORNA 200B; MICRORNA 200C; MICRORNA 21; MICRORNA 214; MICRORNA 221; MICRORNA 296; MICRORNA 29A; MICRORNA 346; MICRORNA 424; MICRORNA 494; MICRORNA 508; MICRORNA 519A; MICRORNA 648; MICRORNA 662; MICRORNA 663; MICRORNA 99A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOGENESIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL METABOLISM; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DNA METHYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG TARGETING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIOID CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; EPIGENETICS; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LEIOMYOMA; LUNG CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MICRORNA PROFILING; MUTATION; OVARY CANCER; OVARY CARCINOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATHOGENESIS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERIZATION; PROGNOSIS; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; TUMOR GROWTH; UPREGULATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ANIMALS; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MICE; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80054004585     PISSN: 01986325     EISSN: 10981128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/med.20205     Document Type: Review

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