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Parveen Bansal1, Malika Arora2
1University Centre of Excellence in Research, Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot, Punjab, India. bansal66@yahoo.com.
Insights
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) treatments face challenges. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) show promise as diagnostic biomarkers and therapeutic agents for CVD, offering new treatment avenues.
Area of Science:
- Biomedical Science
- Molecular Biology
- Cardiology
Background:
- Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major global health burden, characterized by chronic and progressive symptoms.
- Current CVD therapies have limitations, including toxicity, complexity, and drug resistance.
- RNA molecules, particularly microRNAs (miRNAs), present versatile therapeutic potential for various diseases.
Purpose of the Study:
- To review recent advancements in miRNA research for cardiovascular disease.
- To explore the role of miRNAs as diagnostic biomarkers and therapeutic agents in CVD.
- To highlight the future potential of miRNAs in CVD treatment and personalized medicine.
Main Methods:
- Literature review of current research on miRNAs in cardiovascular disease.
- Analysis of miRNA mechanisms, including miRNA, RNA binding proteins, and siRNA.
- Exploration of strategies for miRNA-based therapeutic development.
Main Results:
- miRNAs are emerging as crucial players in the pathogenesis and progression of CVD.
- miRNAs demonstrate potential as reliable diagnostic biomarkers for CVD.
- miRNAs offer promising therapeutic strategies for managing and treating CVD.
Conclusions:
- Understanding miRNA biology is key to translating RNA therapeutics into clinical practice for CVD.
- miRNAs represent a significant future therapeutic target for cardiovascular diseases.
- Developing 'micronomes' could identify novel miRNA-mRNA interactions for predictive diagnostics and targeted therapies.
Abstract:
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality as well as morbidity worldwide. The disease has been reported to be chronic in nature and the symptoms of the disease worsen progressively over a long period of time. Inspite of noteworthy achievements have been made in the therapy of CVD yet the available drugs are associated with various undesirable factors including drug toxicity, complexity, resistance and many more. The versatility of RNAs makes them crucial therapeutics candidate for many human diseases. Deeper understanding of RNA biology, exploring new classes of RNA that possess therapeutic potential will help in its successful translation to the clinic. Understanding the mode of action of various RNAs such as miRNA, RNA binding proteins and siRNA in CVD will help in improved therapeutics among patients. Multiple strategies are being planned to determine the future potential of miRNAs to treat a disease. This review embodies the recent work done in the field of miRNA and its role in cardiovascular disease as diagnostic biomarker as well as therapeutic agents. In addition the review highlights the future of miRNAs as a potential therapeutic target and need of designing micronome that may reveal potential predictive targets of miRNA-mRNA interaction.
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