MicroRNAs, immune cells and pregnancy

Cellular and Molecular Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 538-547

  Bidarimath, Mallikarjun ^a   Khalaj, Kasra ^a,b   Wessels, Jocelyn M ^b,c   Tayade, Chandrakant ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

angiogenesis; endometrium; immunology; lymphocytes; miRNA; mRNA; placenta; pregnancy; trophoblast; uterus

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 101; MICRORNA 143; MICRORNA 148; MICRORNA 148A; MICRORNA 150; MICRORNA 152; MICRORNA 155; MICRORNA 17 5P; MICRORNA 181B; MICRORNA 18A; MICRORNA 19A; MICRORNA 210; MICRORNA 221; MICRORNA 222; MICRORNA 224; MICRORNA 23A; MICRORNA 24; MICRORNA 27B; MICRORNA 296 5P; MICRORNA 29B; MICRORNA 30C; MICRORNA 30D; MICRORNA 320; MICRORNA 429; MICRORNA 451; MICRORNA 507; MICRORNA 7A; MICRORNA 99B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BIOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTA LOCALIZATION; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; UTERUS; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; LYMPHOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; LYMPHOCYTES; MICRORNAS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PREGNANCY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84908504482     PISSN: 16727681     EISSN: 20420226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cmi.2014.45     Document Type: Review

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