The conserved miR-8/miR-200 microRNA family and their role in invertebrate and vertebrate neurogenesis

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 359, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 161-177

  Trümbach, Dietrich ^a   Prakash, Nilima ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Gliogenesis; miR 200; miR 8; Neurogenesis

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; JAGGED1; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 200; MICRORNA 8; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL SIZE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROBLAST; NEUROEPITHELIUM CELL; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; INVERTEBRATA; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INVERTEBRATES; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROGENESIS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84922299235     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-014-1911-z     Document Type: Review

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