MiRNA was isolated from cultured cells or ventricular tissue using
RNAzolRT reagent (GeneCopoeia, Rockville, MD, USA) and the samples were reverse transcribed using the All-in-One RT-qPCR kit (GeneCopoeia, Cat#: QP016) according to the supplier’s instructions. The cDNA samples were further processed through quantitative RT-qPCR using miRNA specific primer sets for 1a, 133, 27b, or 208a from GeneCopoeia. MiRNA expression for RT-qPCR analysis was normalized to a reference primer (U6) using the ΔΔC
T method. A thermal profile was utilized as follows: 50 °C for 2 min, 95 °C for 10 min, 95 °C for 10 sec, 63 °C for 20 sec, 72 °C for 10 sec; 40 cycles; then 95 °C, 60 °C and 95 °C for 15 sec each, using an
ECO thermocycler (Illumina, San Diego, CA).
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