MicroRNAs in skeletal muscle biology and exercise adaptation

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 95-105

  Kirby, Tyler J ^a   McCarthy, John J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise; Free radicals; MicroRNA; MyomiR; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 1; MICRORNA 143; MICRORNA 155; MICRORNA 16; MICRORNA 214; MICRORNA 221; MICRORNA 222; MICRORNA 29; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ADAPTATION; AEROBIC CAPACITY; AGING; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BIOLOGY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ENDURANCE TRAINING; EXERCISE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BIOLOGY; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE REGENERATION; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESISTANCE TRAINING; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SATELLITE CELL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

EXERCISE; FREE RADICALS; MICRORNA; MYOMIR; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FREE RADICALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DISEASES; MYOBLASTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84885179745     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: 18734596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2013.07.004     Document Type: Review

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