MicroRNAs and Other Non-Coding RNAs in Inflammation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Greene, Catherine M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Progress in Inflammation Research
• Subjects: Medicine.; Gene expression.; Immunology.; Molecular biology.; Cell biology.; Biomedicine.; Molecular Medicine.; Cell Biology.; Gene Expression.

The book serves as a comprehensive resource for scientists and clinicians studying the role of non-coding RNAs in inflammation (viral infections, wound inflammation), human inflammatory diseases (i.e. rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, diabetes), and innate immunity. It provides a universal refe...

Table of Contents:

• The biology of microRNA
• The biology of long non-coding RNA
• microRNA regulation of neutrophil function
• How non-coding RNAs contribute to macrophage polarization
• Endogenous control of dendritic cell activation by miRNA
• Noncoding RNA expression during viral infection: the long and the short of it
• Wound inflammation: emerging role of miRNA
• The importance of microRNAs in rheumatoid arthritis
• MicroRNAs with impact on adipose tissue inflammation in obesity
• The relationship between miR-29, NOD2 and Crohn’s disease
• The role of ncRNA in diabetes
• ncRNA as diagnostics and prognostics for hepatocellular carcinoma.