“…MIAT, also termed as Gomafu in human or Rncr2 in mouse [6][7][8], is a promising functional factor among all disease-associated lncRNAs, and exhibits deregulation in multiple diseases, including upregulation in ischemic stroke, myocardial infarction, neuroendocrine prostate cancer, non-small-cell lung cancer, diabetic cardiomyopathy, cataract, chronic chagas disease cardiomyopathy, chronic lymphocytic leukemia and down-regulation in schizophrenia, diabetic nephropathy, bone disease [9]. It has recently found that MIAT is upregulated in hearts of a mouse model of AMI, and knocking it down improves cardiac function by inhibition of activation of NF-κB signaling pathway [10]. Furthermore, knockdown of MIAT improved cardiac functions, decreased cardiomyocytes apoptosis and attenuated inflammatory cell infiltration in vivo [11].…”