Emerging roles of non-coding RNAs in brain evolution, development, plasticity and disease

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 528-541

  Qureshi, Irfan A ^a   Mehler, Mark F ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ANGIOGENIN; ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; ATAXIN 1; CYCLIC AMP; MICRORNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

APOPTOSIS; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN DISEASE; CELL CYCLE; CELL MIGRATION; CENTROMERE; DNA REPLICATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; GLIOMA; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; METHYLATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROFIBROMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; STEM CELL; STROKE; TELOMERE; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84864126183     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3234     Document Type: Review

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