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PHYSIOLOGICAL GENOMICS
Volume 43, Issue 10, Pages 521-528Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00158.2010
Keywords
ischemia; brain; atherosclerosis; miRNA
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- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [R01 NS-42617]
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Rink C, Khanna S. MicroRNA in ischemic stroke etiology and pathology. Physiol Genomics 43: 521-528, 2011. First published September 14, 2010; doi: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00158.2010.-Small, noncoding, microRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as key mediators of posttranscriptional gene silencing in both pathogenic and pathological aspects of ischemic stroke biology. In stroke etiology, miRNA have distinct expression patterns that modulate pathogenic processes including atherosclerosis (miR-21, miR-126), hyperlipidemia (miR-33, miR-125a-5p), hypertension (miR-155), and plaque rupture (miR-222, miR-210). Following focal cerebral ischemia, significant changes in the miRNA transcriptome, independent of an effect on expression of miRNA machinery, implicate miRNA in the pathological cascade of events that include blood brain barrier disruption (miR-15a) and caspase mediated cell death signaling (miR-497). Early activation of miR-200 family members improves neural cell survival via prolyl hydroxylase mRNA silencing and subsequent HIF-1 alpha stabilization. Pro- (miR-125b) and anti-inflammatory (miR-26a, -34a, -145, and let-7b) miRNA may also be manipulated to positively influence stroke outcomes. Recent examples of successfully implemented miRNA-therapeutics direct the future of gene therapy and offer new therapeutic strategies by regulating large sets of genes in related pathways of the ischemic stroke cascade.
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