Circulating exosomal microRNA expression patterns distinguish cardiac sarcoidosis from myocardial ischemia
Abstract
Cardiac sarcoidosis is difficult to diagnose, often requiring expensive and inconvenient advanced imaging techniques. Circulating exosomes contain genetic material, such as microRNA (miRNA), that are derived from diseased tissues and may serve as potential disease-specific biomarkers. We thus sought to determine whether circulating exosome-derived miRNA expression patterns would distinguish cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) from acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jan 26, 2021
- Source ID
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0246083
Entities
People
- Elliott D Crouser
- Kai Wang
- Lisa A. Maier
- Mark W. Julian
- May Gillespie
- Nabeel Y. Hamzeh
- Sabahattin Bicer
- Taek-kyun Kim
- Vikas Ghai
Organizations
- National Institutes of Health
- United States Department of Defense