MicroRNAs as regulators, biomarkers and therapeutic targets in liver diseases

X Wang, Y He, B Mackowiak, B Gao - Gut, 2021 - gut.bmj.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small, non-coding RNAs that post-transcriptionally regulate gene
expression by binding to specific mRNA targets and promoting their degradation and/or …

Inflammation and liver cancer: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic targets

YM Yang, SY Kim, E Seki - Seminars in liver disease, 2019 - thieme-connect.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is associated with chronic inflammation and fibrosis arising
from different etiologies, including hepatitis B and C and alcoholic and nonalcoholic fatty …

[HTML][HTML] miR-122–a key factor and therapeutic target in liver disease

S Bandiera, S Pfeffer, TF Baumert, MB Zeisel - Journal of hepatology, 2015 - Elsevier
Being the largest internal organ of the human body with the unique ability of self-
regeneration, the liver is involved in a wide variety of vital functions that require highly …

Orchestrating liver development

M Gordillo, T Evans, V Gouon-Evans - Development, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
The liver is a central regulator of metabolism, and liver failure thus constitutes a major health
burden. Understanding how this complex organ develops during embryogenesis will yield …

Functional roles of chemokine receptor CCR2 and its ligands in liver disease

S She, L Ren, P Chen, M Wang, D Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Chemokines are a family of cytokines that orchestrate the migration and positioning of
immune cells within tissues and are critical for the function of the immune system. CCR2 …

Circulating microRNAs in patients with chronic hepatitis C and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

S Cermelli, A Ruggieri, JA Marrero, GN Ioannou… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
MicroRNAs miR-122, miR-34a, miR-16 and miR-21 are commonly deregulated in liver
fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. This study examined whether circulating levels of …

Spatial sorting enables comprehensive characterization of liver zonation

S Ben-Moshe, Y Shapira, AE Moor, R Manco, T Veg… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The mammalian liver is composed of repeating hexagonal units termed lobules. Spatially
resolved single-cell transcriptomics has revealed that about half of hepatocyte genes are …

miRNAs in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

CH Liu, J Ampuero, A Gil-Gómez, R Montero-Vallejo… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background & Aims microRNAs (miRNAs) are deregulated in non-alcoholic fatty liver
disease (NAFLD) and have been proposed as useful markers for the diagnosis and …

miR-122 is a unique molecule with great potential in diagnosis, prognosis of liver disease, and therapy both as miRNA mimic and antimir

S Thakral, K Ghoshal - Current gene therapy, 2015 - ingentaconnect.com
miR-122, a completely conserved liver-specific miRNA in vertebrates, is essential for the
maintenance of liver homeostasis. This 22 nucleotide RNA regulates diverse functions such …

[HTML][HTML] Hepatocellular carcinoma: causes, mechanism of progression and biomarkers

AK Singh, R Kumar, AK Pandey - Current chemical genomics and …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common malignant tumours in the
world. It is a heterogeneous group of a tumour that vary in risk factor and genetic and …