The combination of transcriptomics and informatics identifies pathways targeted by miR-204 during neurogenesis and axon guidance

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 7793-7806

  Conte, Ivan ^a   Merella, Stefania ^b   Garcia Manteiga, Jose Manuel ^b   Migliore, Chiara ^c   Lazarevic, Dejan ^b   Carrella, Sabrina ^a   Marco Ferreres, Raquel ^d,e   Avellino, Raffaella ^a   Davidson, Nathan Paul ^a   Emmett, Warren ^f   Sanges, Remo ^g   Bockett, Nicholas ^h   Van Heel, David ^h   Meroni, Germana ^c   Bovolenta, Paola ^d,e   Stupka, Elia ^b   Banfi, Sandro ^a,i  

^a TELETHON INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND MEDICINE TIGEM   (Italy)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c CBM scrl Genomics Area Science Park   (Italy)

^d CENTRO DE BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

^e CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE ENFERMEDADES RARAS CIBERER   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^h QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPHRIN RECEPTOR B2; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 204; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DDX3 GENE; DPYSL3 GENE; EFNB3 GENE; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FISH GENETICS; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ALGORITHM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KIF5 GENE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; ORYZIAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MICRORNAS; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEUROGENESIS; ORYZIAS; RETINA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84904013446     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku498     Document Type: Article

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