MicroRNA-34a inhibits the proliferation and metastasis of osteosarcoma cells both in vitro and in vivo.

BACKGROUND: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of endogenously expressed, small noncoding RNAs, which suppress its target mRNAs at the post-transcriptional level. Studies have demonstrated that miR-34a, which is a direct target of the p53 tumor suppressor gene, functions as a tumor suppressor and is ass...

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Main Authors: Kang Yan, Jie Gao, Tongtao Yang, Qiong Ma, Xiuchun Qiu, Qingyu Fan, Baoan Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3310405?pdf=render