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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 27.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Res. 2009 Mar 27;104(6):724–732. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.108.192872

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Putative model of miR-126 function in endothelial cells. miR-126 represses SPRED1 and PIK3R2, which negatively regulate VEGF signaling (and possibly other growth factor signaling pathways) via the MAP kinase and PI3 kinase pathways, respectively. Thus, miR-126 promotes VEGF signaling, angiogenesis and vascular integrity by inhibiting protein production of endogenous VEGF repressors within endothelial cells (adapted from61).