Targeting microRNAs involved in human diseases: A novel approach for modification of gene expression and drug development

Biochemical Pharmacology

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1416-1429

  Gambari, Roberto ^a   Fabbri, Enrica ^a   Borgatti, Monica ^a   Lampronti, Ilaria ^a   Finotti, Alessia ^a   Brognara, Eleonora ^a   Bianchi, Nicoletta ^a   Manicardi, Alex ^b   Marchelli, Rosangela ^b   Corradini, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Erythroid differentiation; Gene regulation; Gene transcription; MicroRNAs; Peptide nucleic acids

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; ALPHA GLOBIN; CELL PENETRATING PEPTIDE; LOCKED NUCLEIC ACID; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 107; MICRORNA 122; MICRORNA 122A; MICRORNA 143; MICRORNA 145; MICRORNA 155; MICRORNA 18; MICRORNA 182; MICRORNA 19; MICRORNA 198; MICRORNA 203; MICRORNA 21; MICRORNA 210; MICRORNA 221; MICRORNA 222; MICRORNA 29; MICRORNA 301; MICRORNA 375; MICRORNA 519D; MICRORNA 645; MICRORNA 96; MICRORNA ANTIBODY; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID; RNA ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; POLYNUCLEOTIDE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CANCER INHIBITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIABETES MELLITUS; DNA MODIFICATION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG DESIGN; ERYTHROPOIESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE THERAPY; HEARING LOSS; HEART FAILURE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; METASTASIS; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OSTEOPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; RNA STRUCTURE; VASCULAR DISEASE; BASE PAIRING; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG TARGETING; ERYTHROID CELL; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLOBIN GENE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HISTONE MODIFICATION; IN VIVO GENE TRANSFER; KIDNEY CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM; NEUROBLASTOMA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS CANCER; PATENT; PROSTATE CANCER; RHABDOID TUMOR; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA METABOLISM; STOMACH CANCER; TESTIS TUMOR; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

DRUG DISCOVERY; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ERYTHROID CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS;

EID: 80054691489     PISSN: 00062952     EISSN: 18732968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2011.08.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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