Long Noncoding RNAs Regulate Cell Growth, Proliferation, and Apoptosis

DNA and Cell Biology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 459-470

  Li, Jingqiu ^a   Tian, Haihua ^a,b   Yang, Jie ^a   Gong, Zhaohui ^a  

^a NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Ningbo Kangning Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MICRORNA; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN; DNA DAMAGE RESPONSE; EPIGENETICS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; CELL CYCLE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DISEASE COURSE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR PROTEINS; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEOPLASMS; RNA, LONG NONCODING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84986268148     PISSN: 10445498     EISSN: 15577430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/dna.2015.3187     Document Type: Article

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