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Micromanaging microRNAs: using murine models to study microRNAs in lung fibrosis.

ABSTRACT: MicroRNAs are implicated in many biological and pathological processes and are emerging as key actors in lung health and disease. Specific patterns of dysregulated microRNAs have been found in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), an untreatable interstitial lung disease of unknown etiology. IPF is characterized by dramatic and extensive phenotypic changes in the lung that include alveolar cell hyperplasia, fibroblast proliferation and formation of myofibroblast foci, deposition of extracellular matrix, and changes in lung transcriptional programming. Here, we discuss the latest insights about the role of microRNAs in lung fibrosis with a focus on the contribution of animal models of disease to the derivation of these insights.

SUBMITTER: Lino Cardenas CL

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4201640 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Micromanaging microRNAs: using murine models to study microRNAs in lung fibrosis.

Lino Cardenas Christian L CL Kaminski Naftali N Kass Daniel J DJ

Drug discovery today. Disease models 20130101 3

MicroRNAs are implicated in many biological and pathological processes and are emerging as key actors in lung health and disease. Specific patterns of dysregulated microRNAs have been found in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), an untreatable interstitial lung disease of unknown etiology. IPF is characterized by dramatic and extensive phenotypic changes in the lung that include alveolar cell hyperplasia, fibroblast proliferation and formation of myofibroblast foci, deposition of extracellular ...[more]

PMID: 25328532

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