Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Hyperoxia causes miR-34a-mediated injury via angiopoietin-1 in neonatal lungs

  • Mansoor Syed,
  • Pragnya Das,
  • Aishwarya Pawar,
  • Zubair H. Aghai,
  • Anu Kaskinen,
  • Zhen W. Zhuang,
  • Namasivayam Ambalavanan,
  • Gloria Pryhuber,
  • Sture Andersson,
  • Vineet Bhandari

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01349-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Hyperoxia contributes to lung injury in bronchopulmonary dysplasia. The authors show that hyperoxia increases miR-34a expression in human neonates and in mouse models, and that pathology is ameliorated by miR-34a inhibition or by administration of its target angiopoietin-1