MicroRNA-29b inhibits supernatants from silica-treated macrophages from inducing extracellular matrix synthesis in lung fibroblasts
Author(s) -
Ximeng Lian,
Xiaowei Chen,
Jingping Sun,
Guoliang An,
Xiaoli Li,
Yan Wang,
Piye Niu,
Zhonghui Zhu,
Lin Tian
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
toxicology research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.709
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 2045-4538
pISSN - 2045-452X
DOI - 10.1039/c7tx00126f
Subject(s) - extracellular matrix , extracellular , fibroblast , microbiology and biotechnology , lung , chemistry , microrna , matrix (chemical analysis) , macrophage , cancer research , biochemistry , biology , medicine , in vitro , gene , chromatography
Supernatants from silica-treated macrophages induced the lung fibroblasts proliferation, miR-29b reduced and extracellular matrix synthesis increased, which could be markedly inhibited by overexpression of miR-29b.
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