Moreover, LncRNA mannose-inhibitable adhesin-T7 receptor (MIAT) is upregulated in cardiac tissues of the MI mouse model, and knockdown of MIAT inhibits the collagen production and cardiac fibroblasts proliferation, thereby suppressing interstitial fibrosis by a mechanism related to MIAT sponging miR-24, and thus regulating Furin/TGF-β1 expression (Qu et al., 2017). Here, MIAT is linked to myocardial infarction.