Friday, August 26, 2011

Circulating miR-142-3p levels in patients with systemic sclerosis

Summary

Background.  Recently, increased evidence has shown that serum micro (mi)RNA levels are a useful biomarker for the diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic value of various diseases. However, serum miRNA has not been investigated in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), to our knowledge.


Aim.  To investigate the possibility that serum levels of Homo sapiens miR-142 stem-loop (hsa-miR-142-3p), one of the miRNAs regulating the expression of integrin αV, could be a specific disease marker for SSc.


Methods.  Serum samples were obtained from 61 patients with SSc and 20 healthy controls. Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus ...

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