Human milk cells contain numerous miRNAs that may change with milk removal and regulate multiple physiological processes

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Alsaweed, Mohammed ^a,b   Lai, Ching Tat ^a   Hartmann, Peter E ^a   Geddes, Donna T ^a   Kakulas, Foteini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MAJMAAH UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; Breastmilk; Human milk; Milk cells; Milk removal; MiRNA profiling; Next generation sequencing

Indexed keywords

HSA LET 7A 5P; HSA LET 7F 5P; HSA LET 7I 5P; HSA MICRORNA 10A 5P; HSA MICRORNA 125A 5P; HSA MICRORNA 141 3P; HSA MICRORNA 146B 5P; HSA MICRORNA 148A 3P; HSA MICRORNA 181A 5P; HSA MICRORNA 181B 5P; HSA MICRORNA 182 5P; HSA MICRORNA 191 5P; HSA MICRORNA 21 5P; HSA MICRORNA 22 3P; HSA MICRORNA 26A 5P; HSA MICRORNA 27B 3P; HSA MICRORNA 30A 5P; HSA MICRORNA 30D 5P; HSA MICRORNA 375; HSA MICRORNA 423 5P; HSA MICRORNA 92A 5P; MICRORNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APPETITE; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CELL ISOLATION; FEMALE; FLUID BALANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; THIRST; UPREGULATION; GENETICS; INFANT; LACTATION; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; MILK EJECTION;

BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LACTATION; LIPID METABOLISM; MICRORNAS; MILK EJECTION; MILK, HUMAN;

EID: 84975165465     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms17060956     Document Type: Article

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