Distinctive microRNA expression signatures in proton-irradiated mice

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 382, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 225-235

  Khan, Shahid Yar ^a   Tariq, Muhammad Akram ^a,b   Perrott, James Patrick ^a   Brumbaugh, Christopher Drew ^a   Kim, Hyunsung John ^a   Shabbir, Muhammad Imran ^a,d   Ramesh, Govindarajan T ^c   Pourmand, Nader ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Differential expression; Mice; miRNA; Proton radiation

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; PROTON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BRAIN; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEALTH HAZARD; LIVER; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION RESPONSE; RNA SEQUENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TESTIS;

MUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MICE; MICRORNAS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTONS; RNA EDITING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 84884669504     PISSN: 03008177     EISSN: 15734919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11010-013-1738-z     Document Type: Article

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