MicroRNA and mRNA transcriptome profiling in primary human astrocytes infected with Borrelia burgdorferi

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Casselli, Timothy ^a   Qureshi, Humaira ^a,b   Peterson, Elizabeth ^a   Perley, Danielle ^a   Blake, Emily ^a,c   Jokinen, Bradley ^a   Abbas, Ata ^a   Nechaev, Sergei ^a   Watt, John A ^a   Dhasarathy, Archana ^a   Brissette, Catherine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b HABIB UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MATURATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYME DISEASE; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA SEQUENCE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENETICS; IMMUNITY; INFLAMMATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ASTROCYTES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; INFLAMMATION; LYME DISEASE; MICRORNAS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85011283138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0170961     Document Type: Article

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