Huang Yimo, Ma Wende, Guo Cen, Su Xiaoling
College of Clinical Medicine, Qinghai University, Xining, Qinghai, China.
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Qinghai Provincial People's Hospital, Xining, Qinghai, China.
Front Pharmacol. 2025 Jun 6;16:1596767. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2025.1596767. eCollection 2025.
Pulmonary hypertension is a major cardiovascular disease characterized by the persistent elevation of pulmonary artery pressure, leading to vascular remodeling, fibrosis, and endothelial dysfunction. In recent years, the TGF-β signaling pathway and miRNAs have played important roles in the pathogenesis of PH. TGF-β regulates the proliferation, migration and fibrosis of vascular smooth muscle cells through the classical Smad pathway and non-classical pathways such as PI3K/Akt and MAPK. miRNAs such as miR-21, miR-145, and miR-204 play key roles. Among them, miR-21 promotes the proliferation and migration of vascular smooth muscle cells, miR-145 inhibits the overproliferation and fibrosis of vascular smooth muscle cells, and miR-204 alleviates vascular remodeling by inhibiting TGF-β signaling. The combination of CRISPR gene editing and an exosome delivery system can precisely regulate miRNA expression, thus providing new therapeutic targets for pulmonary hypertension.
肺动脉高压是一种主要的心血管疾病,其特征是肺动脉压力持续升高,导致血管重塑、纤维化和内皮功能障碍。近年来,转化生长因子-β(TGF-β)信号通路和微小RNA(miRNAs)在肺动脉高压的发病机制中发挥了重要作用。TGF-β通过经典的Smad通路以及PI3K/Akt和MAPK等非经典通路调节血管平滑肌细胞的增殖、迁移和纤维化。miR-21、miR-145和miR-204等miRNAs发挥着关键作用。其中,miR-21促进血管平滑肌细胞的增殖和迁移,miR-145抑制血管平滑肌细胞的过度增殖和纤维化,miR-204通过抑制TGF-β信号减轻血管重塑。CRISPR基因编辑与外泌体递送系统相结合可以精确调节miRNA表达,从而为肺动脉高压提供新的治疗靶点。
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