MicroRNA in cancer: New hopes for antineoplastic chemotherapy
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MicroRNA in cancer: New hopes for antineoplastic chemotherapy
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of endogenous non-coding small RNAs that are evolutionarily conserved and widely distributed among species. Their major function is to negatively regulate mRNA target genes, and miRNA expression has been found to be deregulated in all human cancers, where miRNAs play critical roles in tumorigenesis, functioning either as tumor suppressors or as oncogenes. This rev...
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عنوان ژورنال: Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0300-9734,2000-1967
DOI: 10.3109/03009734.2012.660551