Extracellular small RNAs: What, where, why?

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 886-890

  Hoy, Anna M ^a   Buck, Amy H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extracellular small RNA; microRNA (miRNA); RNA; RNA induced silencing complex (RISC)

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL TYPE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE MARKER; ENCAPSULATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA STABILITY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RNA; RNA-INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

EID: 84864382291     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20120019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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