Differential expression of miR-145 in children with Kawasaki disease.

Kawasaki disease is an acute, self-limited vasculitis of childhood that can result in structural damage to the coronary arteries. Previous studies have implicated the TGF-β pathway in disease pathogenesis and generation of myofibroblasts in the arterial wall. microRNAs are small non-coding RNAs that...

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Main Authors: Chisato Shimizu, Jihoon Kim, Petra Stepanowsky, Christine Trinh, Hubert D Lau, Johnny C Akers, Clark Chen, John T Kanegaye, Adriana Tremoulet, Lucila Ohno-Machado, Jane C Burns
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3590129?pdf=render