Progress and challenge of microRNA research in immunity

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Lee, Hyang Mi ^a   Nguyen, Duc T ^a   Lu, Li Fan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hematopoiesis; Immune dysfunction; Immune regulation; microRNA (miRNA); Post transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 10A; MICRORNA 125A; MICRORNA 146A; MICRORNA 148A; MICRORNA 150; MICRORNA 155; MICRORNA 15A; MICRORNA 16; MICRORNA 17-92; MICRORNA 181; MICRORNA 182; MICRORNA 21; MICRORNA 210; MICRORNA 214; MICRORNA 223; MICRORNA 23B; MICRORNA 29B; MICRORNA 326; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; SHORT SURVEY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84906266519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00178     Document Type: Short Survey

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