Current strategies for microRNA research

Modern Rheumatology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 645-653

  Takada, Shuji ^a   Asahara, Hiroshi ^a,b,c  

^a National Center for Child Health and Development   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

In silico; Method; MicroRNA; Profiling

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; MICRORNA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; APOPTOSIS; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BIOGENESIS; CELL MATURATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER MODEL; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ASSAY; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; INTRON; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR SENSOR; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84870315384     PISSN: 14397595     EISSN: 14397609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10165-011-0583-8     Document Type: Review

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