RNA-Seq Characterization of Spinal Cord Injury Transcriptome in Acute/Subacute Phases: A Resource for Understanding the Pathology at the Systems Level

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Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Chen, Kenian ^a   Deng, Shuyun ^a   Lu, Hezuo ^a   Zheng, Yiyan ^a   Yang, Guodong ^a   Kim, Dong ^a   Cao, Qilin ^a   Wu, Jia Qian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG INFORMATION; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; INFLAMMATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; PHARMACOGENOMICS; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84881253249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072567     Document Type: Article

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