Non-coding rnas in development and disease: Background, mechanisms, and therapeutic approaches

Physiological Reviews

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1297-1325

  Beermann, Julia ^a,b   Piccoli, Maria Teresa ^a,b   Viereck, Janika ^a,b   Thum, Thomas ^a,b  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; RNA; RNA, CIRCULAR;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; METABOLISM;

BIOMARKERS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RNA; RNA, LONG NONCODING;

EID: 84983780969     PISSN: 00319333     EISSN: 15221210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00041.2015     Document Type: Article

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