Inhibition of let-7 augments the recruitment of epicardial cells and improves cardiac function after myocardial infarction

Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

Volumn 94, Issue , 2016, Pages 145-152

  Seeger, Timon ^a,b   Xu, Quan Fu ^a   Muhly Reinholz, Marion ^a   Fischer, Ariane ^a   Kremp, Eva Maria ^a   Zeiher, Andreas M ^b   Dimmeler, Stefanie ^a  

^a Institute of Cardiovascular Regeneration   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac regeneration; Epicardial cells; Epithelial to mesenchymal transition; Let 7; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA LET 7; MICRORNA LET 7A; MICRORNA LET 7B; MICRORNA LET 7C; MICRORNA LET 7F; MICRORNA LET 7I; PROTEIN TCF12; T CELL FACTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MIRNLET7 MICRORNA, MOUSE; TCF21 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FIBROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL LINEAGE; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FIBROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICRORNAS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION;

EID: 84963582740     PISSN: 00222828     EISSN: 10958584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2016.04.002     Document Type: Article

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