FUS mutant human motoneurons display altered transcriptome and microRNA pathways with implications for ALS pathogenesis

R De Santis, L Santini, A Colantoni, G Peruzzi… - Stem cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
The FUS gene has been linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). FUS is a ubiquitous
RNA-binding protein, and the mechanisms leading to selective motoneuron loss …

MicroRNA profiling reveals marker of motor neuron disease in ALS models

ML Hoye, ED Koval, AJ Wegener… - Journal of …, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder marked by
the loss of motor neurons (MNs) in the brain and spinal cord, leading to fatally debilitating …

A new perspective on depression and neuroinflammation: Non-coding RNA

S Zhou, R Chen, Y She, X Liu, H Zhao, C Li… - Journal of psychiatric …, 2022 - Elsevier
The high incidence and relapse rate of depression, as well comorbidity with other diseases,
has made depression one of the primary causes of years of life lived with disability …

Role of microRNA in proliferation phase of wound healing

AM Soliman, S Das, N Abd Ghafar, SL Teoh - Frontiers in genetics, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Wound healing is a complex biological process that is generally composed of four phases:
hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and remodeling. The proliferation phase is crucial …

Prediction of potential miRNA–disease associations through a novel unsupervised deep learning framework with variational autoencoder

L Zhang, X Chen, J Yin - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
The important role of microRNAs (miRNAs) in the formation, development, diagnosis, and
treatment of diseases has attracted much attention among researchers recently. In this study …

Role of extracellular vesicles in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

D Ferrara, L Pasetto, V Bonetto, M Basso - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is the most common motor neuron disease in adults
and primarily targets upper and lower motor neurons. The progression of the disease is …

Motor neuron-derived microRNAs cause astrocyte dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

ML Hoye, MR Regan, LA Jensen, AM Lake, LV Reddy… - Brain, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We recently demonstrated that microRNA-218 (miR-218) is greatly enriched in motor
neurons and is released extracellularly in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis model rats. To …

[HTML][HTML] Antagonizing miR-218-5p attenuates Wnt signaling and reduces metastatic bone disease of triple negative breast cancer cells

H Taipaleenmäki, NH Farina, AJ van Wijnen, JL Stein… - Oncotarget, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Wnt signaling is implicated in bone formation and activated in breast cancer cells promoting
primary and metastatic tumor growth. A compelling question is whether osteogenic miRNAs …

[HTML][HTML] Motor neurons use push-pull signals to direct vascular remodeling critical for their connectivity

LF Martins, I Brambilla, A Motta, S de Pretis, GP Bhat… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
The nervous system requires metabolites and oxygen supplied by the neurovascular
network, but this necessitates close apposition of neurons and endothelial cells. We find …

miR-218 promotes dopaminergic differentiation and controls neuron excitability and neurotransmitter release through the regulation of a synaptic-related genes …

S Pulcrano, R De Gregorio, C De Sanctis… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
In the brain, microRNAs (miRNAs) are believed to play a role in orchestrating synaptic
plasticity at a higher level by acting as an additional mechanism of translational regulation …