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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2020

Challenges in Using Circulating Micro-RNAs as Biomarkers for Cardiovascular Diseases.

Kyriacos Felekkis, Christos Papaneophytou

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Kyriacos FelekkisDepartment of Life and Health Sciences, University of Nicosia, 2417 Nicosia, Cyprus.
Christos PapaneophytouDepartment of Life and Health Sciences, University of Nicosia, 2417 Nicosia, Cyprus.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Micro-RNAs (miRNAs) play a pivotal role in the development and physiology of the cardiovascular system while they have been associated with multiple cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Several cardiac miRNAs are detectable in circulation (circulating miRNAs; c-miRNAs) and are emerging as diagnostic and therapeutic biomarkers for CVDs. c-miRNAs exhibit numerous essential characteristics of biomarkers while they are extremely stable in circulation, their expression is tissue-/disease-specific, and they can be easily detected using sequence-specific amplification methods. These features of c-miRNAs are helpful in the development of non-invasive assays to monitor the progress of CVDs. Despite significant progress in the detection of c-miRNAs in serum and plasma, there are many contradictory publications on the alterations of cardiac c-miRNAs concentration in circulation. The aim of this review is to examine the pre-analytical and analytical factors affecting the quantification of c-miRNAs and provide general guidelines to increase the accuracy of the diagnostic tests in order to improve future research on cardiac c-miRNAs.

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BiomarkersCardiovascular DiseasesGene Expression RegulationHumansMicroRNAsMolecular Targeted TherapyMyocardiumPrognosisSensitivity and SpecificityBiomarkersMicroRNAsbiomarkerscardiovascular diseasecirculating micro-RNAsprognosis

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PMID31952319
PMCPMC7013987

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