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miRNA:

hsa-miR-21

Disease:

myocardial infarction

Relationship type:

Unspecified

Detection method for miRNA expression:

northern blot, qRT-PCR etc

Expression pattern of miRNA:

down-regulated

Validated targets of miRNA from the reference:

unknown

Validated targets of miRNA from TarBase:

PTEN,TPM1 : More...

Predicted targets: MIRANDA, TARGETSCAN, PICTAR-VERT

 

Description:

miR-21 expression was significantly downregulated in infarcted areas, but was upregulated in border areas. The downregulation of miR-21 in the infarcted areas was inhibited by ischemic preconditioning, a known cardiac protective method. Overexpression of miR-21 via adenovirus expressing miR-21 (Ad-miR-21) decreased myocardial infarct size by 29% at 24 h and decreased the dimension of left ventricles at two weeks after AMI. Using both gain-of-function and loss-of-function approaches in cultured cardiac myocytes, we identified that miR-21 had a protective effect on ischemia-induced cell apoptosis that was associated with its target gene programmed cell death 4 (PDCD4) and activator protein 1 (AP-1) pathway. The protective effect of miR-21 against ischemia-induced cardiac myocyte damage was further confirmed in vivo by decreased cell apoptosis in the border and infarcted areas of the infarcted rat hearts after treatment with Ad-miR-21. The results suggest that miRNAs such as miR-21 may play critical roles in the early phase of AMI.

 

 

Reference:

MicroRNA expression signature and the role of microRNA-21 in the early phase of acute myocardial infarction. | PMID:19706597
Dong S, Cheng Y, Yang J, Li J, Liu X, Wang X, Wang D, Krall TJ, Delphin ES, Zhang C.
J Biol Chem. 2009 Aug 25.

 

 
 
 
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  miRGator
  CCBB
  MicroRNA.org
  miRRim
  miRNAMap 2.0
 
 
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