Extracellular matrix: an important regulator of cell functions and skeletal muscle development

W Zhang, Y Liu, H Zhang - Cell & bioscience, 2021 - Springer
Extracellular matrix (ECM) is a kind of connective tissue in the cell microenvironment, which
is of great significance to tissue development. ECM in muscle fiber niche consists of three …

Fighting the fiber: targeting collagen in lung fibrosis

CA Staab-Weijnitz - American Journal of Respiratory Cell and …, 2022 - atsjournals.org
Organ fibrosis is characterized by epithelial injury and aberrant tissue repair, where
activated effector cells, mostly fibroblasts and myofibroblasts, excessively deposit collagen …

miR-29a/b1 inhibits hair follicle stem cell lineage progression by spatiotemporally suppressing WNT and BMP signaling

M Ge, C Liu, L Li, M Lan, Y Yu, L Gu, Y Su, K Zhang… - Cell Reports, 2019 - cell.com
Hair follicle stem cells (HFSCs) and subsequent generations of matrix progeny make
lineage choices by responding to spatiotemporal signals; however, the cues driving that …

Long Noncoding RNA (lncRNA) CTTN-IT1 Elevates Skeletal Muscle Satellite Cell Proliferation and Differentiation by Acting as ceRNA for YAP1 Through Absorbing …

T Wu, S Wang, L Wang, W Zhang, W Chen, X Lv… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Characterizing the factors that regulate the growth and development of muscle is central to
animal production. Skeletal muscle satellite cells (SMSCs) provide an important material for …

Link between insulin resistance and skeletal muscle extracellular matrix remodeling

R Aleksandrowicz, M Strączkowski - Endocrine Connections, 2023 - ec.bioscientifica.com
Skeletal muscle is the main metabolic tissue responsible for glucose homeostasis in the
body. It is surrounded by the extracellular matrix (ECM) consisting of three layers …

Influence of microRNAs and exosomes in muscle health and diseases

NT Lam, M Gartz, L Thomas, M Haberman… - Journal of muscle …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract microRNAs are short,(18–22 nt) non-coding RNAs involved in important cellular
processes due to their ability to regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level …

MiR-29ab1 Cluster Resists Muscle Atrophy Through Inhibiting MuRF1

C Liu, L Li, M Ge, L Gu, K Zhang, Y Su, Y Zhang… - DNA and cell …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Skeletal muscle has great plasticity. An increase in protein degradation can cause muscle
atrophy. Atrogin-1 and muscle ring finger-1 (MuRF1) are dramatically upregulated in various …

Hypoxia-Induced downregulation of miR-29 in renal tumor cells affects collagen IV Subunit expression through multiple sites

C Liu, L Liu, J Bo, X Lu, D Qu, G Liu, Z Jiang, L Cai - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Multiple tumor exacerbations and treatment procedures, such as extracellular matrix
remodeling, metabolic reprogramming, immunological evasion, and resistance to …

Targeting autophagy in ethnomedicine against human diseases

J Lai, Y Tang, F Yang, J Chen, FH Huang… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ethnopharmacological relevance In the past five years, ethnopharmacy-based drugs have
been increasingly used in clinical practice. It has been reported that hundreds of …

Overexpression of miR-29ab1 Cluster Results in Excessive Muscle Growth in 1-Month-old Mice by Inhibiting Mstn

C Liu, Y Cao, L Li, Y Wang, Q Meng - DNA and Cell Biology, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Skeletal muscle mass is closely related to strength and health. Multiple genes and signaling
pathways are involved in the regulation of skeletal muscle hypertrophy. miR-29 can …