MicroRNA-126-5p promotes endothelial proliferation and limits atherosclerosis by suppressing Dlk1

Nature Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 368-376

  Schober, Andreas ^a,b,c   Nazari Jahantigh, Maliheh ^a,b   Wei, Yuanyuan ^a,b   Bidzhekov, Kiril ^a   Gremse, Felix ^b   Grommes, Jochen ^d,e   Megens, Remco T A ^a   Heyll, Kathrin ^a,b   Noels, Heidi ^b   Hristov, Michael ^a   Wang, Shusheng ^f   Kiessling, Fabian ^b   Olson, Eric N ^g   Weber, Christian ^a,b,c,h  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c DZHK GERMAN CENTRE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f Tulane University   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELTA LIKE 1 HOMOLOG; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 126 3P; MICRORNA 126 5P; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIPROLIFERATIVE ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BINDING SITE; CAROTID ARTERY LIGATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL REGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UPREGULATION;

MUS;

ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY INJURIES; CELL PROLIFERATION; DOWN-REGULATION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICRORNAS;

EID: 84898419690     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.3487     Document Type: Article

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