J 2021

MicroRNAs as theranostic markers in cardiac allograft transplantation: from murine models to clinical practice

NOVÁK, Jan, Táňa MACHÁČKOVÁ, Jan KREJČÍ, Julie DOBROVOLNÁ, Ondřej SLABÝ et. al.

Basic information

Original name

MicroRNAs as theranostic markers in cardiac allograft transplantation: from murine models to clinical practice

Authors

NOVÁK, Jan, Táňa MACHÁČKOVÁ, Jan KREJČÍ, Julie DOBROVOLNÁ and Ondřej SLABÝ

Edition

Theranostics, Lake Haven, Ivyspring International Publisher, 2021, 1838-7640

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Article in a journal

Country of publisher

Australia

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

References:

URL

Organization

Lékařská fakulta – Repository – Repository

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.7150/thno.56327

UT WoS

000642591000004

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-85105091580

Keywords in English

microRNA; biomarker; cardiac allograft transplantation; acute cellular rejection; vasculopathy

Links

EF15_003/0000469, research and development project. EF17_043/0009632, research and development project. MUNI/A/1403/2019, interní kód Repo. NV16-30537A, research and development project.
Changed: 17/5/2022 04:14, RNDr. Daniel Jakubík

Abstract

V originále

Congestive heart failure affects about 23 million people worldwide, and cardiac allograft transplantation remains one of the last options for patients with terminal refractory heart failure. Besides the infectious or oncological complications, the prognosis of patients after heart transplantation is affected by acute cellular or antibody-mediated rejection and allograft vasculopathy development. Current monitoring of both conditions requires the performance of invasive procedures (endomyocardial biopsy sampling and coronary angiography or optical coherence tomography, respectively) that are costly, time-demanding, and non-comfortable for the patient. Within this narrative review, we focus on the potential pathophysiological and clinical roles of microRNAs (miRNAs, miRs) in the field of cardiac allograft transplantation. Firstly, we provide a general introduction about the status of cardiac allograft function monitoring and the discovery of miRNAs as post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression and clinically relevant biomarkers found in the extracellular fluid. After this general introduction, information from animal and human studies are summarized to underline the importance of miRNAs both in the pathophysiology of the rejection process, the possibility of its modulation by altering miRNAs levels, and last but not least, about the use of miRNAs in the clinical practice to diagnose or predict the rejection occurrence.
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