A translational study of circulating cell-free microRNA-1 in acute myocardial infarction.
A translational study of circulating cell-free microRNA-1 in acute myocardial infarction.
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DOI:
10.1042/cs20090645
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发表时间:
2010-04-20
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Zhang C
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Cheng Y;Tan N;Yang J;Liu X;Cao X;He P;Dong X;Qin S;Zhang C
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) precipitate in many diseases including cardiovascular disease. In contrast to our original thought, miRNAs exist in circulating blood and they are relatively stable due to binding with other materials. The current translational study is to establish a method to determine the absolute amount of a miRNA in blood and to determine the potential applications of circulating cell-free microRNA-1 (miR-1) in acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The results revealed that miR-1 is the most abundant miRNA in the heart and is also a heart and muscle specific miRNA. In a cardiac cell necrosis model induced by Triton-100 in vitro, we found that cardiac miR-1 can be released into cultured medium and is stable at least for 24 h. In a rat model of AMI induced by coronary ligation, we found that serum miR-1 is quickly increased after AMI with the peak at 6h, in which an over 200-fold increased miR-1 was demonstrated. The miR-1 level was returned to basal level at 3 days after AMI. Moreover, the serum miR-1 level in rats with AMI has a strong positive correlation with the myocardial size. To further verify the relationship between myocardial size and miR-1 level, an ischemic preconditioning model was applied. The result showed that ischemic preconditioning significantly reduced the circulating miR-1 and the myocardial size induced by ischemia-reperfusion injury. Finally, the levels of circulating cell-free miR-1 were significantly increased in patients with AMI and had a positive correlation with serum CK-MB levels. The results suggest that serum miR-1 could be a novel sensitive diagnostic biomarker for AMI.