Cardiac myocyte miR-29 promotes pathological remodeling of the heart by activating Wnt signaling

MicroRNA-29 is known to reduce collagen production in fibroblasts thereby inhibiting fibrosis in various organs. Here, Sassi et al. show that miR-29 can also enhance fibrotic signalling and pathological hypertrophy of the heart through its action in cardiomyocytes.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yassine Sassi, Petros Avramopoulos, Deepak Ramanujam, Laurenz Grüter, Stanislas Werfel, Simon Giosele, Andreas-David Brunner, Dena Esfandyari, Aikaterini S. Papadopoulou, Bart De Strooper, Norbert Hübner, Regalla Kumarswamy, Thomas Thum, Xiaoke Yin, Manuel Mayr, Bernhard Laggerbauer, Stefan Engelhardt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01737-4