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SUBMITTER: de Gonzalo-Calvo D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5428350 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
de Gonzalo-Calvo D D van der Meer R W RW Rijzewijk L J LJ Smit J W A JW Revuelta-Lopez E E Nasarre L L Escola-Gil J C JC Lamb H J HJ Llorente-Cortes V V
Scientific reports 20170303 1
Using in vitro, in vivo and patient-based approaches, we investigated the potential of circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) as surrogate biomarkers of myocardial steatosis, a hallmark of diabetic cardiomyopathy. We analysed the cardiomyocyte-enriched miRNA signature in serum from patients with well-controlled type 2 diabetes and with verified absence of structural heart disease or inducible ischemia, and control volunteers of the same age range and BMI (N = 86), in serum from a high-fat diet-fed murin ...[more]