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Knockdown of microRNA-29a Changes the Expression of Heat Shock Proteins in Breast Carcinoma MCF-7 Cells

Encieh Choghaei^*, Gholamreza Khamisipour^†, Mojtaba Falahati^*, Behrooz Naeimi^†, Majid Mossahebi-Mohammadi^‡, Rahim Tahmasebi^†, Mojtaba Hasanpour^†, Shakib Shamsian^†, Zahra Sadat Hashemi^§

* Department of Molecular and Cellular Sciences, Faculty of Advanced Sciences and Technology, Pharmaceutical Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University (IAUPS), Tehran, Iran
† The Persian Gulf Marine Biotechnology Medicine Research Center, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
‡ Department of Hematology and Blood Banking, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
§ Department of Medical Biotechnology, School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine (SATiM), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran