The Role of MicroRNA-21 and Autophagy in Liver Fibrosis

Rituraj Niranjan^1*, Ritambhara², Kaushal Prasad Mishra¹, Sivakumar Vijayaraghavalu³, Amit Goel⁴ and Munish Kumar^2,5

¹Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering (BSBE), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

²Department of Biochemistry, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

³Cleveland Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

⁴Department of Gastroenterology, C-Block, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow, India

⁵Department of Cancer Biology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA