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Discovery of an evolutionarily conserved smooth muscle cell-specific lncRNA CARMN
Kunzhe Dong, Jian Shen, Xiangqin He…·Jiliang Zhou
The paper identifies CARMN as an evolutionarily conserved, smooth muscle cell-specific lncRNA, showing its down-regulation in vascular diseases and functional importance in maintaining the contractile phenotype of vascular smooth muscle cells.