MicroRNAs in kidney physiology and disease

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 23-33

  Trionfini, Piera ^a   Benigni, Ariela ^a   Remuzzi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 146A; MICRORNA 148B; MICRORNA 150; MICRORNA 17; MICRORNA 192; MICRORNA 194; MICRORNA 200A; MICRORNA 204; MICRORNA 21; MICRORNA 214; MICRORNA 215; MICRORNA 223; MICRORNA 25; MICRORNA 29A; MICRORNA 29B; MICRORNA 29C; MICRORNA 433; MICRORNA 886; MICRORNA 92; MICRORNA 93; MICRORNA LET 7A-G; SMAD PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOGENESIS; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DISEASE COURSE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY HYPERTROPHY; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; EMBRYOLOGY; GENETICS; GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, IGA; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MICRORNAS; POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASES;

EID: 84924908396     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2014.202     Document Type: Review

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