Overall miRNA expression lower in stem cells

11 November 2011 0 8K Report

Hi, I'm having trouble papers and reviews that show total miRNA expression to be lower in embryonic, adult and cancer stem cells compared to differentiated or normal cells. There's plenty out there that shows miRNA to be lower in tumour tissue, but I can't find any on stem cells. Could anybody please give me some suggestions/links to papers?

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