N Papageorgiou, D Tousoulis, E Androulakis, G Siasos, A Briasoulis, G Vogiatzi, A-M Kampoli, E Tsiamis, C Tentolouris, C Stefanadis
Cardiovascular disease, which is multifactorial and can be influenced by a multitude of environmental and heritable risk factors, remains a major health problem, even though its pathophysiology is far from been elucidated. Discovered just over a decade ago, microRNAs comprise short, non-coding RNAs, which have evoked a great deal of interest, due to their importance for many aspects of homeostasis and disease. Hundreds of different microRNAs are constantly being reported in various organisms. According to a growing body of literature, they have been implicated in the regulation of human physiological processes...
2012: Current Medicinal Chemistry