Other lncRNAs, such as ANRIL (Bai et al., 2014), SNHG14 (Qi et al., 2017), TUG1 (Chen S. et al., 2017), and MEG3 (Yan et al., 2016), were also found to affect neuronal apoptosis, inflammation and angiogenesis during ischemic stroke. The gene discussed is TUG1; the disease is ischemic stroke.