Extracellular circulating viral microRNAs: Current knowledge and perspectives

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Laganà, Alessandro ^a   Russo, Francesco ^b,c   Veneziano, Dario ^a,b   Bella, Sebastiano Di ^b   Giugno, Rosalba ^b   Pulvirenti, Alfredo ^b   Croce, Carlo M ^a   Ferro, Alfredo ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body fluids; Circulating microRNA; Exosomes; microRNA; Vesicules; Viruses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883496491     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00120     Document Type: Short Survey

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