The role of micro-RNAs in the female reproductive tract

Reproduction

Volumn 143, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 559-576

  Nothnick, WarrenB ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DICER; DICER 1 PROTEIN; ESTROGEN; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 101; MICRORNA 107; MICRORNA 122; MICRORNA 124; MICRORNA 125B; MICRORNA 126; MICRORNA 141; MICRORNA 143; MICRORNA 145; MICRORNA 15A; MICRORNA 16; MICRORNA 200A; MICRORNA 200B; MICRORNA 200C; MICRORNA 21; MICRORNA 22; MICRORNA 24; MICRORNA 26A; MICRORNA 29; MICRORNA 29A; MICRORNA 29B; MICRORNA 34A; MICRORNA 9; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; STEROID HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL INVASION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA METHYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROGEN RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FEMALE STERILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; LUTEINIZATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MYOMETRIUM; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY CYCLE; OVIDUCT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; STEROIDOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; UTERINE CERVIX;

ANIMALS; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MICRORNAS; OVARY; OVIDUCTS; REPRODUCTION; RIBONUCLEASE III; UTERUS;

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EID: 84861485185     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-11-0240     Document Type: Review

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