MicroRNAs as regulatory elements in immune system logic

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 279-294

  Mehta, Arnav ^a,b   Baltimore, David ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 223;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ERYTHROCYTE; GRANULOCYTE; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MACROPHAGE; MEGAKARYOCYTE; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOMODULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY, INNATE; IMMUNOMODULATION; MICRORNAS;

EID: 84964754401     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri.2016.40     Document Type: Review

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