MicroRNAs in heart failure is the picture becoming less miRky?

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 203-214

  Melman, Yonathan F ^a   Shah, Ravi ^b   Das, Saumya ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Dyssynchrony; Heart failure; MiRNA

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 1; MICRORNA 133; MICRORNA 208; MICRORNA 21; MICRORNA 24; MICRORNA 29; MICRORNA 378; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DOWN REGULATION; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION;

BIOMARKER; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; DYSSYNCHRONY; HEART FAILURE; MIRNA;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FIBROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MICRORNAS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84896136631     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: 19413297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.113.000266     Document Type: Article

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