1. MicroRNA and mRNA expression profile screening in multiple sclerosis patients to unravel novel pathogenic steps and identify potential biomarkers
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Paola Brambilla, Maria Serpente, Daniela Galimberti, Elisa Ridolfi, Vittorio Martinelli, Filippo Martinelli-Boneschi, Giancarlo Comi, Lucia Moiola, Chiara Fenoglio, Federica Esposito, Mariaemma Rodegher, Elio Scarpini, Giacomo Giacalone, Bruno Colombo, Melissa Sorosina, Claudia Cantoni, and Milena De Riz
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Adult ,Male ,Multiple Sclerosis ,Microarray analysis techniques ,Gene Expression Profiling ,General Neuroscience ,Multiple sclerosis ,Disease ,Computational biology ,Middle Aged ,Biology ,Microarray Analysis ,medicine.disease ,Bioinformatics ,Peripheral blood mononuclear cell ,Gene expression profiling ,MicroRNAs ,microRNA ,Gene expression ,medicine ,Humans ,Female ,RNA, Messenger ,Gene ,Biomarkers - Abstract
Identification of novel targets and biomarkers, such as microRNAs, is extremely helpful to understand the pathogenetic mechanisms in a disease like multiple sclerosis (MS). We tested the expression profile of 1145 microRNAs in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of 19 MS patients and 14 controls, and we further explored their function by performing a whole-genome mRNA profiling in same subjects and using bioinformatic prediction tool. A total of 104 miRNAs have been identified as deregulated in MS patients; 2/10 which ranked highest (let-7g and miR-150) have been validated in a replication sample, leading to the identification of putative target genes.
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- 2012