MicroRNA (miRNA) maturation is regulated by interaction of particular miRNA precursors with specific RNA-binding proteins. Following their biogenesis, mature miRNAs are incorporated into the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) where they interact with mRNAs to negatively regulate protein production. However, little is known about how mature miRNAs are regulated at the level of their activity. ...

Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the second most common form of skin cancer in the United States. Using microarrays, we identified lower levels of microRNA-1 (miR-1) expression in skin from mice that are susceptible to chemicallyinduced skin cancer, compared to skin from resistant mice. Murine SCC cell lines show reduced levels of miR-1 compared to normal skin. We hypothesize that the...

Background After myocardial infarction (MI) complicated by heart failure (HF), eplerenone reduced serum concentrations of amino-terminal propeptide type III collagen (PIIINP) and carboxy-terminal I (PICP). Determining a subgroup who are more prone to decrease their content respond better the antifibrotic effects mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRA) may be relevant for personalized treat...

The role of microRNA-1 (miR-1) has been studied in cardiac and skeletal muscle differentiation. However, it remains unexplored in vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs) differentiation. The aim of this study was to uncover novel targets of and shed light on the function of miR-1 in the context of embryonic stem cell (ESC) differentiation of SMCs in vitro. miR-1 expression is steadily increased dur...

Mus spretus mice are highly resistant to several types of cancer compared to Mus musculus mice. To determine whether differences in microRNA (miRNA) expression account for some of the differences in observed skin cancer susceptibility between the strains, we performed miRNA expression profiling of skin RNA for over 300 miRNAs. Five miRNAs, miR-1, miR-124a-3, miR-133a, miR-134, miR-206, were dif...

congenital factor xiii deficiency is a very rare bleeding disorder, but because of the high rate of consanguineous marriages, it is common in sistan and baluchestan province of iran. the discovery of promoter hypermethylation of numerous mirnas in human diseases has demonstrated an epigenetic mechanism for aberrant mirna expression. the present study has analyzed methylation and expression stat...

Introduction Patients with primary nephrotic syndrome (PNS) were reported to exhibit the evident imbalance between number of Th17 and Treg cells in their peripheral blood monocytes (PBMCs), which might be immunological basis disease. Material methods 40 PNS patients 42 healthy individuals recruited this study. FCM assay was used observe levels cells. Results The Treg/Th17 ratio evidently decrea...

Abstract Background Identification of molecular markers, such as miRNAs is promising for the diagnosis asthma and its clinical phenotypes. The aim this study was to examine changes in expression selected microRNAs plasma exosomal fractions severe patients. determined relation inflammatory markers. Method Severe patients (n = 30) healthy subjects were among individuals referred allergy clinic. B...