Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Therapeutic role of miR-19a/19b in cardiac regeneration and protection from myocardial infarction

  • Feng Gao,
  • Masaharu Kataoka,
  • Ning Liu,
  • Tian Liang,
  • Zhan-Peng Huang,
  • Fei Gu,
  • Jian Ding,
  • Jianming Liu,
  • Feng Zhang,
  • Qing Ma,
  • Yingchao Wang,
  • Mingming Zhang,
  • Xiaoyun Hu,
  • Jan Kyselovic,
  • Xinyang Hu,
  • William T. Pu,
  • Jian’an Wang,
  • Jinghai Chen,
  • Da-Zhi Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09530-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

Read online

The miR-17-92 cluster has been shown to regulate cardiomyocyte proliferation in vitro and in genetic mutation and overexpression models. Here the authors show that the cluster member miR-19a/19b regulates cardiomyocyte proliferation in vivo, and that delivery of miR-19a/19b to the heart leads to both short-term and long-term protective responses to myocardial infarction.