Environmental exposures in utero and microRNA
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Environmental exposures in utero and microRNA
PURPOSE OF REVIEW Understanding the effects of in-utero exposures to environmental agents is of great importance as the resulting deregulation of biological processes can affect both fetal development and health outcomes that manifest later in life. Due to their established role in developmental processes and inherent stability ex vivo, microRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as attractive candidates t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Opinion in Pediatrics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1040-8703
DOI: 10.1097/mop.0000000000000073