Experimental verification of a predicted intronic microRNA in human NGFR gene with a potential pro-apoptotic function

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Parsi, Sepideh ^a   Soltani, Bahram M ^a   Hosseini, Ebrahim ^a   Tousi, Samaneh E ^a   Mowla, Seyed J ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 6165; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE ALPHA, HUMAN; LIPOPROTEIN LIPASE; MIRN6165 MICRORNA, HUMAN; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; NERVE PROTEIN; NGFR PROTEIN, HUMAN; POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE 1 PROTEIN; POLYCYSTIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GLIOBLASTOMA; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR GENE; NEURAL STEM CELL DERIVED DENDRITE REGULATOR GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYCYSTIN 1 GENE; RAT; REGULATOR GENE; TUMOR CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GLIOMA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; PLASMID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GLIOMA; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTRONS; LIPOPROTEIN LIPASE; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFECTION; TRPP CATION CHANNELS;

EID: 84860440134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035561     Document Type: Article

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