The origin, function, and diagnostic potential of extracellular microRNAs in human body fluids

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 285-300

  Liang, Hongwei ^a   Gong, Fei ^a   Zhang, Suyang ^a   Zhang, Chen Yu ^a   Zen, Ke ^a   Chen, Xi ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; EXTRACELLULAR MICRORNA; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITION FACTOR; MICRO RNA 106A; MICRO RNA 133B; MICRO RNA 150; MICRO RNA 290; MICRO RNA 296; MICRO RNA 335; MICRO RNA 451; MICRO RNA 517A; MICRO RNA 584; MICRO RNA 92A; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 126; MICRORNA 132; MICRORNA 143; MICRORNA 145; MICRORNA 21; MICRORNA 221; MICRORNA 223; MICRORNA 24; MICRORNA 29A; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; NUCLEOPHOSMIN; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADIPOCYTE; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; APOPTOSIS; ATHEROGENESIS; BIOGENESIS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; BODY FLUID; BREAST CANCER; BREAST MILK; CARDIAC HEALING; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DEATH; CELL FATE; CELL MEMBRANE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COLOSTRUM; DIETARY INTAKE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; EXOCYTOSIS; EXOSOME; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEALING; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEMATOPOIESIS; HEMOLYSIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; KIDNEY INJURY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPHOBLASTOID CELL LINE; LYSOSOME; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MILK; MULTIVESICULAR BODY; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SALIVA; SERUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SYNAPTOSOME; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELL; UPREGULATION; URINE; VIRUS INFECTION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY FLUIDS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84893784618     PISSN: 17577004     EISSN: 17577012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrna.1208     Document Type: Review

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