Transfer and functional consequences of dietary microRNAs in vertebrates: Concepts in search of corroboration

BioEssays

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 394-406

  Witwer, Kenneth W ^a   Hirschi, Kendal D ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Diet; Epigenetics; Exosome; MicroRNA; Nutrition; RNAi

Indexed keywords

DIETARY MICRORNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MICRORNA; RNA; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 7; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DROSOPHILA; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EUKARYOTE; EXOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; GERM LINE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PERMEABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSPORT; TRANSCYTOSIS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; VERTEBRATA;

CHOLESTEROL; DIET; EPIGENETICS; EXOSOME; MICRORNA; NUTRITION; RNAI;

ANIMALS; BEES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DIET; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MICE; MICRORNAS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, PLANT; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84896719020     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201300150     Document Type: Article

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