Overview of microRNA biogenesis, mechanisms of actions, and circulation

J O'Brien, H Hayder, Y Zayed, C Peng - Frontiers in endocrinology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of non-coding RNAs that play important roles in regulating
gene expression. The majority of miRNAs are transcribed from DNA sequences into primary …

Obesity and dyslipidemia

J Vekic, A Zeljkovic, A Stefanovic, Z Jelic-Ivanovic… - Metabolism, 2019 - Elsevier
Obesity, a pandemic of the modern world, is intimately associated with dyslipidemia, which
is mainly driven by the effects of insulin resistance and pro-inflammatory adipokines …

Exosome and exosomal microRNA: trafficking, sorting, and function

J Zhang, S Li, L Li, M Li, C Guo, J Yao… - Genomics, Proteomics …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Exosomes are 40–100 nm nano-sized vesicles that are released from many cell
types into the extracellular space. Such vesicles are widely distributed in various body fluids …

[HTML][HTML] The role of lipids and lipoproteins in atherosclerosis

MRF Linton, PG Yancey, SS Davies, WG Jerome… - Endotext …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Atherosclerosis is the underlying cause of heart attack and stroke. Early observations that
cholesterol is a key component of arterial plaques gave rise to the cholesterol hypothesis for …

A comparative study of serum exosome isolation using differential ultracentrifugation and three commercial reagents

I Helwa, J Cai, MD Drewry, A Zimmerman, MB Dinkins… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Exosomes play a role in cell-to-cell signaling and serve as possible biomarkers. Isolating
exosomes with reliable quality and substantial concentration is a major challenge. Our …

MicroRNAs in cardiovascular disease

T Barwari, A Joshi, M Mayr - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2016 - jacc.org
Micro-ribonucleic acids (miRNAs) are in the spotlight as post-transcriptional regulators of
gene expression. More than 1,000 miRNAs are encoded in the human genome. In this …

Cell‐to‐cell communication: microRNAs as hormones

R Bayraktar, K Van Roosbroeck… - Molecular oncology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Mammalian cells can release different types of extracellular vesicles (EVs), including
exosomes, microvesicles, and apoptotic bodies. Accumulating evidence suggests that EVs …

[HTML][HTML] Extracellular/circulating microRNAs: release mechanisms, functions and challenges

MH Sohel - Achievements in the Life Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenously initiated, small non-coding RNAs and typically
regulate the expression of mRNAs in post transcriptional level either via translational …

What is the blood concentration of extracellular vesicles? Implications for the use of extracellular vesicles as blood-borne biomarkers of cancer

KB Johnsen, JM Gudbergsson, TL Andresen… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2019 - Elsevier
Circulating biomarkers have a great potential in diagnosing cancer diseases at early stages,
where curative treatment is a realistic possibility. In the recent years, using extracellular …

Neutrophil-to-hepatocyte communication via LDLR-dependent miR-223–enriched extracellular vesicle transfer ameliorates nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

Y He, RM Rodrigues, X Wang, W Seo… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Neutrophil infiltration around lipotoxic hepatocytes is a hallmark of nonalcoholic
steatohepatitis (NASH); however, how these 2 types of cells communicate remains obscure …