Evidence and potential in vivo functions for biofluid miRNAs: From expression profiling to functional testing: Potential roles of extracellular miRNAs as indicators of physiological change and as agents of intercellular information exchange

BioEssays

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 367-378

  Iftikhar, Hina ^a   Carney, Ginger E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofluid; Extracellular; In vivo; miRNA; Non cell autonomous; Secreted vesicle

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; FUNCTION TEST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; INVERTEBRATE MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; RECIPIENT; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; BODY FLUID; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EXOSOME; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BODY FLUIDS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL COMMUNICATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EXOSOMES; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICE; MICRORNAS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84961215101     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201500130     Document Type: Article

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