RARs and MicroRNAs

Sub-Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 70, Issue , 2014, Pages 151-179

  Nervi, Clara ^a   Grignani, Francesco ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; RETINOID X RECEPTOR;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MICRORNAS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; RETINOID X RECEPTORS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRETINOIN;

EID: 84910118194     PISSN: 03060225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9050-5_8     Document Type: Article

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