miRNAs: Biological and clinical determinants in epilepsy

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue OCT, 2015, Pages

  Alsharafi, Walid A ^a   Xiao, Bo ^a   Abuhamed, Mutasem M ^b   Luo, Zhaohui ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Neurology   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Epilepsy; Hippocampus; miRNA; Pathogenesis

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 10B; MICRORNA 125B; MICRORNA 132; MICRORNA 134; MICRORNA 146A; MICRORNA 155; MICRORNA 181B; MICRORNA 181C; MICRORNA 184; MICRORNA 196; MICRORNA 204; MICRORNA 21; MICRORNA 212 3P; MICRORNA 218; MICRORNA 219; MICRORNA 221; MICRORNA 222; MICRORNA 23A; MICRORNA 296 5P; MICRORNA 30C; MICRORNA 34A; MICRORNA 34C 5P; MICRORNA 375; MICRORNA 381; MICRORNA 423 3P; MICRORNA 450A; MICRORNA 497; MICRORNA 9; MICRORNA 98; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL MIGRATION; DENTATE GYRUS; DOWN REGULATION; EPILEPSY; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MESIAL TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

EID: 84944455010     PISSN: 16625099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2015.00059     Document Type: Review

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