Pervasive roles of microRNAs in cardiovascular biology

EM Small, EN Olson - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
First recognized as regulators of development in worms and fruitflies, microRNAs are
emerging as pivotal modulators of mammalian cardiovascular development and disease …

Heparan sulfate biosynthesis: regulation and variability

J Kreuger, L Kjellén - Journal of Histochemistry & …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Nearly all vertebrate cells have been shown to express heparan sulfate proteoglycans
(HSPGs) at the cell surface. The HSPGs bind to many secreted signaling proteins, including …

miR-218 directs a Wnt signaling circuit to promote differentiation of osteoblasts and osteomimicry of metastatic cancer cells

MQ Hassan, Y Maeda, H Taipaleenmaki… - Journal of Biological …, 2012 - ASBMB
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) negatively and post-transcriptionally regulate expression of multiple
target genes to support anabolic pathways for bone formation. Here, we show that miR-218 …

Neuronal extracellular vesicles and associated microRNAs induce circuit connectivity downstream BDNF

A Antoniou, L Auderset, L Kaurani, E Sebastian… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as mediators of cellular communication, in part
via the delivery of associated microRNAs (miRNAs), small non-coding RNAs that regulate …

[HTML][HTML] The role of the Slit/Robo signaling pathway

M Tong, T Jun, Y Nie, J Hao, D Fan - Journal of Cancer, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Slit family is a family of secreted proteins that play important roles in various physiologic
and pathologic activities via interacting with Robo receptors. Slit/Robo signaling was first …

Novel roles for Slits and netrins: axon guidance cues as anticancer targets?

P Mehlen, C Delloye-Bourgeois, A Chédotal - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2011 - nature.com
Over the past few years, several genes, proteins and signalling pathways that are required
for embryogenesis have been shown to regulate tumour development and progression by …

MicroRNA-218 Inhibits Glioma Invasion, Migration, Proliferation, and Cancer Stem-like Cell Self-Renewal by Targeting the Polycomb Group Gene Bmi1

Y Tu, X Gao, G Li, H Fu, D Cui, H Liu, W **, Y Zhang - Cancer research, 2013 - AACR
Malignant gliomas are the most common central nervous system tumors and the molecular
mechanism driving their development and recurrence is still largely unknown, limiting the …

Slit2 signaling through Robo1 and Robo2 is required for retinal neovascularization

N Rama, A Dubrac, T Mathivet, RA Ní Chárthaigh… - Nature medicine, 2015 - nature.com
Ocular neovascular diseases are a leading cause of blindness. Vascular endothelial growth
factor (VEGF) blockade improves vision, but not all individuals respond to anti-VEGF …

miRNAs as modulators of angiogenesis

S Landskroner-Eiger, I Moneke… - Cold Spring …, 2013 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
MicroRNAs are highly expressed in endothelial cells, and recent data suggest that they
regulate aspects of vascular development and angiogenesis. This study highlights the state …

MicroRNA-26a/b and their host genes cooperate to inhibit the G1/S transition by activating the pRb protein

Y Zhu, Y Lu, Q Zhang, JJ Liu, TJ Li… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The functional association between intronic miRNAs and their host genes is still largely
unknown. We found that three gene loci, which produced miR-26a and miR-26b, were …