Negative chronotropic effects are decreases in heart rate.

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Characterization of the disease-causing deletion showed that the absence of two miRNAs, miR-15-a and miR-16-1, causes chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)

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#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

The miRNAs miR-15-a and miR-16-1 act like tumor-suppressors; they normally inhibit cell proliferation, and their absence leads to cell growth.

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#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Let-7 miRNAs down-regulate the translation of Ras. Thus in the absence of the miRNAs, Ras is constitutively overproduced, contributing to tumorigenesis.

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Neurofibromatosis, a benign tumor of the sheath cells that surround nerves, is caused by loss of both alleles of NF1, which encodes a RAS GAP-type protein.

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MYC is translocated close to an antibody gene, leading to overproduction of MYC IN Burkitt’s Lymphoma due to translocation from Chromosome 8 to 14.

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Monomers and dimers of p53, exists in the cytoplasm.