Age-related differences in the expression of circulating microRNAs: miR-21 as a new circulating marker of inflammaging

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 133, Issue 11-12, 2012, Pages 675-685

  Olivieri, Fabiola ^a,b   Spazzafumo, Liana ^b   Santini, Gabriele ^a   Lazzarini, Raffaella ^a   Albertini, Maria Cristina ^c   Rippo, Maria Rita ^a   Galeazzi, Roberta ^b   Abbatecola, Angela Marie ^b   Marcheselli, Fiorella ^b   Monti, Daniela ^e   Ostan, Rita ^d   Cevenini, Elisa ^d   Antonicelli, Roberto ^b   Franceschi, Claudio ^d   Procopio, Antonio Domenico ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b INRCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Centenarians; Centenarians offspring; Circulating microRNA; Circulating miR 21

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FIBRINOGEN; MICRORNA 21; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MICRORNAS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 84870741421     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: 18726216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2012.09.004     Document Type: Article

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