Contribution of MicroRNAs to autoimmune diseases

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2041-2051

  Garo, Lucien P ^a   Murugaiyan, Gopal ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendritic cells; Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis (EAE); Immune tolerance; MicroRNA therapeutics; MIR 146a; MIR 155; MIR 21; Multiple sclerosis (MS); Th17

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 10A; MICRORNA 146A; MICRORNA 155; MICRORNA 17 92; MICRORNA 19; MICRORNA 21; MICRORNA 210; MICRORNA 23B; MICRORNA 301A; MICRORNA 326; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AUTOANTIGEN; MIRN146 MICRORNA, HUMAN; MIRN146 MICRORNA, MOUSE; MIRN155 MICRORNA, HUMAN; MIRN155 MICRORNA, MOUSE; MIRN21 MICRORNA, HUMAN; MIRN21 MICRORNA, MOUSE;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RNAI THERAPEUTICS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DENDRITIC CELL; EXPERIMENTAL AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; TH17 CELL;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DENDRITIC CELLS; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; INFLAMMATION; MICE; MICRORNAS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; TH17 CELLS;

EID: 84960106277     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-016-2167-4     Document Type: Review

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