Provide a medical explanation for this exercise is good for the heart, a team of scientists from Brazil, following a study that began in the laboratory of Dr. Ian Phillips at Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) has discovered a new gene called microRNA regulation 29, which keeps healthy heart, even in strenuous exercise.The results of the study were published in the latest issue of the journal Physiological Genomics. The first author is Ursula Associates, a doctoral student of De Oliveira.
The paper reports the discovery of regulatory genes that determine whether the heart is healthy or unhealthy, said Phillips.
MicroRNA 29 saves because the collagen genes accumulate in the heart, the injections can have a therapeutic value, according to Phillips.
De Oliveira has received a grant for the next phase of their research, involving the injection of rats with hypertension MicroRNA 29 to see if the gene inhibitor can prevent the development of large hearts because of unhealthy.
Dr Edilamar de Oliveira, a professor of biochemistry at the School of Physical Education at the University of Sao Paulo, Phillips has worked with, while doing postdoctoral studies at KGI 2007-09.
Applying what he learned in his research on miRNAs in cardiac hypertrophy and physical education after his return to Brazil, Oliveira found microRNAs act as a brake-specific genes, proteins that inhibit these genes occur.
The discovery has broad implications for people with congestive heart disease.