Therapeutic miRNAs for treating heart and skeletal muscle diseases
AssigneeUniversity of Houston System
InventorsYu Liu, Robert Schwartz, Xiaopeng Shen
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Abstract
The present disclosure describes the role for miR-322(424)/503 in the differentiation of cardiac precursor cells. Thus, the use of these molecules in the programming of resident stem/progenitor cells into cardiomyocytes, both in vitro and in vivo. Such methods find particular use in the treatment of patients post-myocardial infarction to prevent or limit scarring and to promote myocardial repair.
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A method preventing or delaying development of cardiac hypertrophy or heart failure in a subject having suffered a myocardial infarct (MI) comprising providing to the subject's cardiac tissue comprising residential embryonic stem cells or residential cardiac progenitor cells in miR-322/424 and/or miR-503, as well pri-miRNAs and pre-miRNAs thereof, thereby preventing or delaying development of cardiac hypertrophy or heart failure in said subject.
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