MicroRNAs are involved in end-organ damage during hypertension

Hypertension

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1088-1093

  Heggermont, Ward A ^a   Heymans, Stephane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

general categories: basic science; genetics genomics: gene expression regulation; heart cardiac: failure; kidney: chronic failure; microRNA; vascular biology: hypertrophy remodeling

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPOIETIN 1; ANGIOTENSIN 1 RECEPTOR; APOPTOSIS INDUCING FACTOR; CHROMOGRANIN A; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; DICER; ENDOTHELIN 1; KALLIKREIN 5; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 1; MICRORNA 133A; MICRORNA 155; MICRORNA 192; MICRORNA 200B; MICRORNA 200C; MICRORNA 21; MICRORNA 221; MICRORNA 29; MICRORNA 29B; MICRORNA 30; MICRORNA 499; MICRORNA 9; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; SOMATOMEDIN C; STAT3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL FUNCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DOWN REGULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FOLLOW UP; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSION RETINOPATHY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; KIDNEY INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSIVE RETINOPATHY; KIDNEY DISEASES; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84868209434     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.111.187104     Document Type: Review

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