Macro Roles for MicroRNAs in the Life and Death of Neurons

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: De Strooper, Bart (Editor), Christen, Yves (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Gene expression.; Neurosciences.; Biomedicine.; Gene Expression.

The discovery of microRNAs has revealed an unexpected and spectacular additional level of fine tuning of the genome and how genes are used again and again in different combinations to generate the complexity that underlies for instance the brain. Since the initial studies performed in C.elegans, we...