Function, Role, and Clinical Application of MicroRNAs in Vascular Aging

BioMed Research International

Volumn 2016, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Lin, Xiao ^a   Zhan, Jun Kun ^a   Wang, Yan Jiao ^a   Tan, Pan ^a   Chen, Yi Yin ^a   Deng, Hui Qian ^a   Liu, You Shuo ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

AGING; ANGIOGENESIS; APOPTOSIS; BLOOD VESSEL; CALCIFICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL AGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CYTOLOGY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

AGING; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; VASCULAR DISEASES; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 85008640784     PISSN: 23146133     EISSN: 23146141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2016/6021394     Document Type: Review

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