MicroRNAs: Potentially important regulators for schistosome development and therapeutic targets against schistosomiasis

Parasitology

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 669-679

  Cheng, Guofeng ^a   Jin, Youxin ^b,c  

^a AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

development; microRNA; Schistosome; schistosomiasis; therapy

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 1; MICRORNA 124; MICRORNA 7; MICRORNA 8; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SEXUAL MATURATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREMATODE LIFE CYCLE STAGE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM;

EID: 84859414677     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182011001855     Document Type: Review

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