1. MicroRNA Expression Analysis of Centenarians and Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Reveals a Common Expression Pattern
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Luca Deiana, Deiana N, Annalisa Oggiano, Marta Deiana, Porcu B, Francesca Balzano, Sara Pasella, Ciriaco Carru, Fabrizio Scognamillo, Andrea Mannu, Angelo Zinellu, Dei Giudici S, Piera Veronica Pileri, Masala Age, Carlo Pala, and Sara Pinna
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0301 basic medicine ,Male ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Longevity ,Arthritis, Rheumatoid ,03 medical and health sciences ,Expression pattern ,microRNA ,Expression analysis ,TaqMan ,medicine ,Humans ,In patient ,autoimmune diseases ,RNA, Messenger ,media_common ,miRNA ,Aged, 80 and over ,Messenger RNA ,glucocorticoids ,business.industry ,Gene Expression Profiling ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,MicroRNAs ,030104 developmental biology ,Gene Expression Regulation ,Rheumatoid arthritis ,Immunology ,Female ,centenarians ,business ,Research Paper - Abstract
Micro-RNA (miRNA) are a family of small non-coding ribonucleic acids that inhibits post-transcriptionally the expression of their target messenger RNA (mRNA). We are interested in studying the involvement of miRNA in longevity and autoimmune diseases. In this study we compared the different expression of seven microRNAs between human plasma healthy controls, plasma samples of centenarians and samples from patients with rheumatoid arthritis. We used the Life Technologies' protocol to quantify seven miRNAs from 62 plasma samples: 20 healthy human controls, 14 centenarians, 28 patients with rheumatoid arthritis. TaqMan MicroRNA assays were used to analyze the expression profiles of miR-125b-5p, miR-425-5p, miR-200b5p, miR-200c-3p, miR-579-3p, miR-212-3p, miR-21-5p and miR-126-3p. The relative expression of mature miRNAs was analyzed using software REST. Our results show that miR-425-5p, miR-21 and miR-212 significantly decreased in centenarians and in patients with rheumatoid arthritis compared with controls. Furthermore in this work we highlight a connection between corticosteroid treatment and miRNAs expression.
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- 2017