The miR-320-3p has been studied for post-transcriptional gene silencing in the cytoplasm on rat endothelial and cardiac cell cultures derived from diabetes situation [on several genes among which the heat shock protein family B (small) member 6 (Hspb6) or Hsp20 (Montecalvo et al., 2012)]. Here, HSPB6 is linked to diabetes mellitus.