MicroRNAs in Parasitic Helminthiases: Current Status and Future Perspectives

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 71-86

  Cai, Pengfei ^a   Gobert, Geoffrey N ^a   McManus, Donald P ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Circulating miRNAs; Diagnosis; Extracellular vesicles; MicroRNA; Parasitic helminth; Therapeutic intervention

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MICRORNA; HELMINTH RNA;

BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CELL COMMUNICATION; CESTODE; DISEASE COURSE; EXOSOME; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TREMATODE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HELMINTH;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RNA, HELMINTH;

EID: 84959852218     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: 14715007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2015.09.003     Document Type: Review

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