Regulatory roles of long non-coding rnas in the central nervous system and associated neurodegenerative diseases

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Quan, Zhenzhen ^a   Zheng, Da ^a   Qing, Hong ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Central nervous system (CNS); Gene expression; Long non coding RNAs (lncRNAs); Neurodegenerative disease; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DISHEVELLED 2; EPHRIN RECEPTOR B2; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HISTONE DEMETHYLASE; HUMAN OVARIAN CANCER SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPT 2; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA BRAVEHEART; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA EVF2; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA FENDRR; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA GDNFOS; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA HOTAIR; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA NORAD; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA PROSTATE CANCER ANTIGEN 3; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA UROTHELIAL CARCINOMA ASSOCIATED 1; MICRORNA; MICRORNA LET 7B; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; NOTCH2 RECEPTOR; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA 2 ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPT; SERINE THREONINE PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE ONE REGULATORY SUBUNIT 10; SMAD NUCLEAR INTERACTING PROTEIN 1; SMAD PROTEIN; SMALL CYTOPLASMIC RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BRAIN REGION; CELL FATE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EPIGENETICS; EXOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURITE OUTGROWTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE THERAPY; ONCOGENE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA EDITING; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STABILITY; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; SYNAPTOGENESIS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 85026489745     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2017.00175     Document Type: Review

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