Environmental Toxicants and Perturbation of miRNA Signaling

microRNAs in Toxicology and Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 5-31

  Bailey, Kathryn A ^a   Fry, Rebecca C ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease development; Environmental toxicants; MiRNA dysregulation; MiRNA expression; Perturbation; Toxic effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978804403     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118695999.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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