MicroRNAs: Synthesis, gene regulation and osteoblast differentiation

Current Issues in Molecular Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 7-18

  Vimalraj, S ^a   Selvamurugan, N ^a  

^a SRM INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; NEPHRONECTIN; NUCLEAR MATRIX PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMAD1 PROTEIN; SMAD5 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX2; TRANSFER RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOGENESIS; BMP GENE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CBFB GENE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DRUG MECHANISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MICRORNA GENE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOBLAST; OSTEOBLAST DIFFERENTIATION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; RUNX2 GENE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; MICRORNAS; OSTEOBLASTS;

EID: 84862275725     PISSN: 14673037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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