Non-coding RNA contribution to thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysm disease development and progression

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 8, Issue JUN, 2017, Pages

  Li, Yuhuang ^a   Maegdefessel, Lars ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aortic aneurysm; Gene expression regulation; Long non coding RNA (lncRNA); MicroRNA (miRNA); Non coding RNA (ncRNA); Vascular diseases

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MICRORNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE COURSE; EPIGENETICS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL; VASODILATATION;

EID: 85020909395     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2017.00429     Document Type: Review

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