Circulating microRNAs in Disease Diagnostics and their Potential Biological Relevance

by Peter Igaz (Editor)

Overview

MicroRNAs as the endogenous mediators of RNA interference have experienced an unprecedented career in recent years, highlighting their pathogenic, diagnostic and potential therapeutic relevance. Beside tissue microRNAs, they are also found in body fluids, most notably in blood. Significant differences of circulating microRNA levels have been found in various diseases, making them candidates for minimally invasive markers of disease, for example tumor malignancy. The book focuseson the potential diagnostic applicability of circulating microRNAs in various diseases and their potential biological significance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034809535
Publisher:	Springer Basel
Publication date:	12/02/2015
Series:	Experientia Supplementum Series , #106
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Peter Igaz has degrees in medicine and molecular biology. He works as an associate professor in medicine at Semmelweis University Budapest. He is very actively involved in research focusing on the genomics and bioinformatics of endocrine tumors; the study of microRNAs forms a special focus of his research. His research group was among the first to describe tissue microRNA profiles and microRNA biomarkers of malignancy in adrenocortical and adrenomedullary tumors, and circulating microRNAs in adrenocortical tumor patients. His group developed a novel microRNA target prediction algorithm and analyzed pathways involved in adrenal tumors with bioinformatics tools.

Table of Contents

Part I: General features and technical issues related to circulating microRNA.- 1. Introduction to microRNAs: biogenesis, action, relevance of tissue microRNAs in disease pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapy. The concept of circulating microRNAs.- 2. Extracellular microRNAs in membrane vesicles and non-vesicular carriers.- 3. Technical aspects related to the analysis of circulating microRNAs.- Part II: Diagnostic relevance of circulating microRNAs.- 4. Circulating blood-borne microRNAs as biomarkers in solid tumors.- 5. Circulating microRNA as biomarkers in hematological malignancies.- 6 Circulating microRNAs as biomarkers in cardiovascular diseases.- 7 Circulating microRNAs in neurodegenerative diseases.- 8 Circulating extracellular microRNA in systemic autoimmunity.- 9. Circulating microRNAs in inflammatory bowel diseases.- 10. Circulating microRNAs in diabetes progression: discovery, validation and research translation.- 11. Diagnostic relevance of microRNAs in other body fluids including urine, feces and saliva.- Part III: Potential biological relevance of circulating microRNA.- 12 Circulating microRNAs as hormones – intercellular and inter-organ conveyors of epigenetic information?.-

13. Are circulating microRNAs involved in tumor surveillance?.- 14.-Hypothetic interindividual and interspecies relevance of microRNAs released in body fluids.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Omer Iqbal, MD, FACC, FESC (Loyola University Medical Center)
Description: This is an excellent book with good illustrations on circulating microRNAs, given their pathogenic, diagnostic, and potential therapeutic relevance.
Purpose: This is an excellent book with good illustrations on circulating microRNAs, given their pathogenic, diagnostic, and potential therapeutic relevance.
Audience: The intended audience includes students, researchers, and others in the field of biomedicine wishing to learn more about microRNAs. The book should also prove quite interesting to clinicians who want to understand more about microRNAs given their relevance in diagnostics and therapeutics. The author is a credible authority in this field.
Features: The first part of the book covers the general features and technical issues related to circulating microRNA and includes an introduction to microRNAs, extracellular microRNAs, and some technical aspects of their analysis. Part II discusses the diagnostic relevance of circulating microRNAs and includes an overview of the potential diagnostic relevance of circulating microRNAs as minimally invasive biomarkers in various diseases. The final part covers the potential biological relevance of circulating microRNAs. The book includes several high quality illustrations, both in color and in black and white.
Assessment: This is an excellent book on microRNAs, a subject of immense interest given their crucial relevance in pathology, diagnostics, and therapeutics. Students, graduate students, researchers, and clinicians will find this book extremely helpful.

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