Proctor2017 - Identifying microRNA for muscle regeneration during ageing (Mir1_in_muscle)
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    Proctor2017 - Identifying microRNA for muscle regeneration during ageing (Mir1_in_muscle)
  This model is described in the article:
  
    Using computer simulation
    models to investigate the most promising microRNAs to improve
    muscle regeneration during ageing
  
  Carole J. Proctor & Katarzyna
  Goljanek-Whysall
  Nature Scientific Reports
  Abstract:
  
    MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate gene expression through
    interactions with target sites within mRNAs, leading to
    enhanced degradation of the mRNA or inhibition of translation.
    Skeletal muscle expresses many different miRNAs with important
    roles in adulthood myogenesis (regeneration) and myofibre
    hypertrophy and atrophy, processes associated with muscle
    ageing. However, the large number of miRNAs and their targets
    mean that a complex network of pathways exists, making it
    difficult to predict the effect of selected miRNAs on
    age-related muscle wasting. Computational modelling has the
    potential to aid this process as it is possible to combine
    models of individual miRNA:target interactions to form an
    integrated network. As yet, no models of these interactions in
    muscle exist. We created the first model of miRNA:target
    interactions in myogenesis based on experimental evidence of
    individual miRNAs which were next validated and used to make
    testable predictions. Our model confirms that miRNAs regulate
    key interactions during myogenesis and can act by promoting the
    switch between quiescent/proliferating/differentiating
    myoblasts and by maintaining the differentiation process. We
    propose that a threshold level of miR-1 acts in the initial
    switch to differentiation, with miR-181 keeping the switch on
    and miR-378 maintaining the differentiation and miR-143
    inhibiting myogenesis.
  
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SUBMITTER: 
Carole Proctor   
PROVIDER: MODEL1704110000 | BioModels | 2017-09-26 
REPOSITORIES:  BioModels
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