Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Preclinical development of a miR-132 inhibitor for heart failure treatment

  • Ariana Foinquinos,
  • Sandor Batkai,
  • Celina Genschel,
  • Janika Viereck,
  • Steffen Rump,
  • Mariann Gyöngyösi,
  • Denise Traxler,
  • Martin Riesenhuber,
  • Andreas Spannbauer,
  • Dominika Lukovic,
  • Natalie Weber,
  • Katrin Zlabinger,
  • Ena Hašimbegović,
  • Johannes Winkler,
  • Jan Fiedler,
  • Seema Dangwal,
  • Martin Fischer,
  • Jeanne de la Roche,
  • Daniel Wojciechowski,
  • Theresia Kraft,
  • Rita Garamvölgyi,
  • Sonja Neitzel,
  • Shambhabi Chatterjee,
  • Xiaoke Yin,
  • Christian Bär,
  • Manuel Mayr,
  • Ke Xiao,
  • Thomas Thum

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14349-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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miR-132 was shown to drive pathological cardiac remodeling, a hallmark of heart failure. Here, the authors show that an antisense inhibitor of miR-132 has favourable pharmacokinetics, safety-tolerability and preclinical efficacy in mouse and porcine models of heart failure.