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miR-124 and miR-137 inhibit proliferation of glioblastoma multiforme cells and induce differentiation of brain tumor stem cells

Joachim Silber1 email, Daniel A Lim* 1 email, Claudia Petritsch* 1 email, Anders I Persson* 2,3 email, Alika K Maunakea1 email, Mamie Yu1 email, Scott R Vandenberg4 email, David G Ginzinger5 email, C David James1 email, Joseph F Costello1 email, Gabriele Bergers1 email, William A Weiss2,3 email, Arturo Alvarez-Buylla1 email and J Graeme Hodgson1 email

1Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

2Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

3Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

4Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

5Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

BMC Medicine 2008, 6:14doi:10.1186/1741-7015-6-14

Published: 24 June 2008

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Additional file 1:

Characteristics of the patient tissues used in this study.

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Validation of miR-124 expression and function in glioblastoma multiforme cells.

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Supplementary methods. This pdf file provides further details related to the methods used in this study.

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Log2 fold change of microRNAs in non-tumor brain samples (glioses), anaplastic astrocytomas and glioblastoma multiforme tumors.

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Validation of let-7a and miR-16 as appropriate control miRNAs in primary tumor samples and neural stem cells.

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Statistical comparisons of miRNA expression in glioblastoma multiforme and anaplastic astrocytoma tumors versus non-tumor brain tissue (gliosis).

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Assessment of miR-124a and miR-137 expression in mouse oligodendroglial stem cells.

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miR expression in glioblastoma multiforme cell lines following treatment with DNA demethylating and deacetylating agents

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