Circulating miRNAs: Potential novel biomarkers for hepatopathology progression and diagnosis of schistosomiasis japonica in two murine models

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1-18

  Cai, Pengfei ^a   Gobert, Geoffrey N ^a   You, Hong ^a   Duke, Mary ^a   McManus, Donald P ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIVER ENZYME; MICRORNA; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIVER DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYADENYLATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BLOOD; C57BL MOUSE; LIVER; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA;

ANIMALS; BIOMARKERS; FEMALE; LIVER; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICRORNAS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA;

EID: 84938563390     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003965     Document Type: Article

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