The code of non-coding RNAs in lung fibrosis

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 3507-3519

  Cui, Huachun ^a   Xie, Na ^a   Thannickal, Victor J ^a   Liu, Gang ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF); Long non coding RNA (lncRNA); microRNA

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; LET 7D; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 145; MICRORNA 199A 5P; MICRORNA 200; MICRORNA 21; MICRORNA 210; MICRORNA 26A; MICRORNA 29; MICRORNA 326; MICRORNA 424; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BIOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME 14Q; CHROMOSOME 14Q32; DISEASE COURSE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; LUNG FIBROSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84940467245     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-015-1939-6     Document Type: Review

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