Circular RNAs: the Emerging Class of Non-coding RNAs and Their Potential Role in Human Neurodegenerative Diseases

Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 7224-7234

  Kumar, Lalit ^a   Shamsuzzama, ^a   Haque, Rizwanul ^a   Baghel, Tanvi ^a   Nazir, Aamir ^a  

^a CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Circular RNAs; Exon splicing; MicroRNAs; Neurodegenerative diseases

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR RNA; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 138; MICRORNA 181; MICRORNA 199; MICRORNA 23; MICRORNA 7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; RNA; RNA, CIRCULAR;

DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; RNA SYNTHESIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; RNA; RNA, LONG NONCODING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 84992715342     PISSN: 08937648     EISSN: 15591182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12035-016-0213-8     Document Type: Review

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