Targeting smooth muscle microRNAs for therapeutic benefit in vascular disease

Pharmacological Research

Volumn 75, Issue , 2013, Pages 28-36

  Albinsson, Sebastian ^a   Swärd, Karl ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Atherosclerosis; MicroRNA; Neointimal hyperplasia; Pulmonary arterial hypertension; Vascular smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 4; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 1; MICRORNA 133; MICRORNA 143; MICRORNA 145; MICRORNA 145 ANTIBODY; MICRORNA 145A; MICRORNA 145A INHIBITOR; MICRORNA 17; MICRORNA 200B; MICRORNA 21; MICRORNA 221; MICRORNA 29; MICRORNA 328; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AORTA ANEURYSM; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LOSS; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; NEOINTIMA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RISK FACTOR; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; UPREGULATION; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ANEURYSM; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; MICRORNA; NEOINTIMAL HYPERPLASIA; PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; RNA INTERFERENCE; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 84884814430     PISSN: 10436618     EISSN: 10961186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.phrs.2013.04.003     Document Type: Review

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