Introduction Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organic lipophilic pollutants that accumulate through diet and increase with age, have been associated polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) shown to affect microRNA (miRNA) expression. This work aimed determine if PCBs were circulating miRNAs whether there any correlations serum PCB/miRNA levels hormonal changes. Methods 29 non-obese PCOS healthy contr...

introduction cri du chat syndrome is a rare genetic disorder due to deletion of variable length of short arm of chromosome 5(5p). it mainly presents with typical cat like cry, facial dysmorphism, poor growth with feeding problems and severe cognitive, speech, and motor delays. case report we present here a one year old child who did not presented with typical features but presented with recurre...

Sommario Il diabete mellito di tipo 2 (DMT2) è una malattia metabolica cronica eterogenea in costante aumento. In questa rassegna, al fine identificare un gruppo microRNA (miRNA) con potenziale applicazione clinica come biomarcatori per la diagnosi, prognosi e selezione terapie personalizzate i pazienti DMT2, abbiamo effettuato ricerca sistematica letteratura, identificando selezionando 10 miRN...

Recent emerging studies of miRNAs in adipocyte commitment provide new insights to understand the molecular basis of adipogenesis. The current study indicated that miR-140-5p was altered in primary cultured marrow stromal cells and established progenitor lines after adipogenic and/or osteogenic treatment. miR-140-5p was increased in adipose tissue in db/db obese mice vs. lean mice. Supplementing...

Background: Semaphorin-3A (Sema3A), as a secreted semaphorin, is an immune modulator molecule participating in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) modulate the target-gene expression at the post-transcriptional level. It has been proposed that miRNAs may be crucial to the modulation of the function of semaphorins. Previous findings have proven that miR-497-5p is upregula...

Nodal is a member of the transforming growth factor-β superfamily that plays crucial roles during embryogenesis. Recently, we have reported that Nodal inhibits trophoblast cell proliferation, migration and invasion, but induces apoptosis in the human placenta. In this study, we examined the regulation of Nodal by microRNAs. In silico analysis of Nodal 3'UTR revealed a potential binding site for...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the role of miRNA-590-5p in gastric cancer (GC) progression. METHODS Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction was performed to measure endogenous miR-590-5p levels in GC cells and tissues. Overexpression or knockdown of miR-590-5p in GC cells was performed by transfection with mimics or an inhibitor, respectively. MTT, matrigel transwe...

PURPOSE Reliable biological markers for patients with the autoimmune neuromuscular disorder myasthenia gravis (MG) are lacking. We determined whether levels of the circulating immuno-microRNAs miR-150-5p and miR-21-5p were elevated in sera from clinically heterogeneous MG patients, with and without immunosuppression, as compared to healthy controls and patients with other autoimmune disorders. ...

Down-regulation of miR-146b-5p contributes to tumorigenesis in several human cancers. However, the relevance of miR-146b-5p to prognosis, proliferation and apoptosis in gliomas remains unknown. In the present study, we demonstrated that miR-146b-5p expression was inversely correlated with grades and Ki-67 index in 147 human glioma specimens, but positively correlated with patients' survival. Fu...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are increasingly recognized as being involved in pancreatic cancer progression by directly regulating the expression of their targets. In this study, we showed that miR-216b-5p expression was significantly decreased in pancreatic cancer tissues and cell lines. In addition, low miR-216b-5p expression was significantly associated with large tumor size and advanced TNM stage. Me...