Positively correlated miRNA-mRNA regulatory networks in mouse frontal cortex during early stages of alcohol dependence

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Nunez, Yury O ^a   Truitt, Jay M ^a   Gorini, Giorgio ^a   Ponomareva, Olga N ^a   Blednov, Yuri A ^a   Harris, R A ^a   Mayfield, R D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol dependence; Alcoholism; Expression profiling; Frontal cortex; Human; miRNA; Mouse; mRNA; Network analysis; WGCNA

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CYTOKINE; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

MUS;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; ETHANOL; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MICE; MICRORNAS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84886902622     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-725     Document Type: Article

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