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. 2021 Oct 27;8:767064. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2021.767064

Table 2.

miR-21 functions in cardiomyopathies.

Disease conditions Sample sources Targets Functions References
MI Heart/CMs/MPs PDCD4 Apoptosis ↓
Inflammation ↓
(33, 34, 36, 68)
HF Heart PTEN Angiogenesis/CMs Survival ↑ (69)
DCM Heart, CMs Gelsolin Hypertrophy ↓ (52)
I/R Injury Heart, CMs PDCD4/PTEN Apoptosis ↓ (56, 70)
Valve Replacement Heart Apoptosis ↓ (65)
VMCs Heart MAP2K3 Necrosis/ viral titers ↓ (71)
HR CMs PTEN/PDCD4
Akap8/ Bard1
Apoptosis ↓ (30, 61, 70)
OGD/ H2O2/ Palmitate NRCMs/ CPCs
H9C2/ CSCs
PDCD4 Apoptosis ↓ (36, 60, 64, 70, 72)
MI Heart/CFs Smad7/Jagged1/ Spry1 Fibrosis ↑ (31, 35, 73)
HF CFs Spry1 Fibrosis ↑ (74)
DCM Heart SPRY1 Fibrosis ↑ (51)
I/R injury CFs PTEN Fibrosis ↑ (55)
HHD Heart PDCD4 Fibrosis ↑ (75)
AF Herat/CFs/CMs Spry1/Smad7 Fibrosis/ arrhythmia ↑ (4345)
CAD Coronary artery Plaque instability ↑ (41)
HG CFs DUSP8 Fibrosis ↑ (51, 59)
Ang-II CPCs/NRCMs PDCD4 Fibrosis/hypertrophy ↑ (62, 75)

Myocardial infraction (MI), Viral myocarditis (VMC), Heart Failure (HF), Diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM), Ischemia-Reperfusion injury (I/R injury), Hypoxia-Reoxygenation (HR), Oxygen-glucose Deprivation (OGD), Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), Atrial Fibrillation (AF), Coronary artery disease (CAD), Hypertensive heart disease (HHD), High Glucose (HG), Angiotensin II (Ang II), Cardiac Fibroblasts (CFs), Cardiomyocytes (CMs), Macrophages (MPs), Differentiated Cardiac Progenitor Cells (CPCs), Primary Neonatal Rat Cardiac Myocytes (NRCMs), Rat Myoblasts (H9C2), Cardiac Stem Cells (CSCs), Programmed Cell Death 4 (PDCD4), Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Kinase 3 (MAP2K3), Phosphatase and Tensin Homolog Deleted on Chromosome 10(PTEN), Sprouty Homologue 1 (Spry1), A-kinase Anchoring Protein 8 (Akap8), BRCA1 associated RING domain 1 (Bard1), Dual Specific Phosphatase 8 (DUSP8), SMAD Family Member 7 (Smad 7), Increase ↑, Decrease ↓.