Liver fibrosis causes downregulation of miRNA-150 and miRNA-194 in hepatic stellate cells, and their overexpression causes decreased stellate cell activation

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 298, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Venugopal, Senthil K ^a   Jiang, Joy ^a   Kim, Tae Hun ^a,b   Li, Yong ^a   Wang, Si Si ^a,c   Torok, Natalie J ^a   Wu, Jian ^a   Zern, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Ewha Womans University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Basic Medical College   (China)

Author keywords

C myb; MicroRNA 150; Microrna 194; Rac 1

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 150; MICRORNA 194; RAC1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER FIBROSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C MYB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; RAT; STELLATE CELL;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; COLLAGEN TYPE I; DATABASES, GENETIC; DOWN-REGULATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, MYB; HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MICRORNAS; NEUROPEPTIDES; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 73549111067     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: 15221547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00220.2009     Document Type: Article

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