MicroRNAs in neurodegenerative diseases and their therapeutic potential

Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 142-150

  Junn, Eunsung ^a   Mouradian, M Maral ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

MicroRNA; Neurodegenerative disease; Polymorphism; Therapeutic

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; ATAXIN 3; ATAXIN 7; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; EXONUCLEASE; EXPORTIN 5; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 1; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 4; MICRORNA; MYOSTATIN; POLYGLUTAMINE; PROGRANULIN; RNA POLYMERASE; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; CYTOSOL; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DROSOPHILA; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84856440598     PISSN: 01637258     EISSN: 1879016X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2011.10.002     Document Type: Review

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