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Detection of the plasma miR-23a expression in systemic lupus erythematosus and its clinical significance |
YE Lulu1, FAN Chaofan2, HUANG Xixi2, GUO Gangqiang1, ZHANG Huidi3, ZHANG Lifang1, LIN Qiaoai1, XUE Xiangyang1. |
1.Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325035; 2.Department of Clinical Medicine, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325035; 3.Department of Nephrology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325015
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YE Lulu,FAN Chaofan,HUANG Xixi, et al. Detection of the plasma miR-23a expression in systemic lupus erythematosus and its clinical significance[J]. JOURNAL OF WEZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, 2016, 46(3): 168-173.
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Abstract Objective: To explore miR-23a expression and its clinical significance in the plasma of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients. Methods: Plasma samples from 54 SLE patients, 16 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients and 20 healthy controls were collected. The small RNAs in these plasma samples were isolated and reversely transcribed. Using cel-miR-39 as the external reference, the levels of miR-23a expression were detected with real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method. The correlation between the levels of miR-23a expression and the clinical pathological features of SLE and biological significance of miR-23a expression in SLE were further analyzed with statistical methods. Results: Our data indicated that the levels of miR-23a expression in the plasma of SLE patients, RA patients and healthy controls were significantly different (x2=39.199, P<0.001). The level of miR-23a in the plasma of SLE patients was statistically lower than that in RA patients and healthy controls (P<0.05). The area under the ROC (receiver-operating characteristic) curve (AUC) was 0.931 for discriminating between SLE patients and normal subjects and 0.884 for discriminating between SLE and RA patients and patients. The levels of miR-23a expression were set the cutoff values of 19.22 for healthy control and 30.98 for RA patients, the diagnostic sensitivity and specificity were 74.5%, 88.9%, and 73.3%, 86.3%, respectively. The analysis of the correlation between miR-23a expression and the clinical pathological features of SLE shown that the levels of plasma miR-23a expression had positively correlated with anti-ANA titers and negatively correlated with white blood cell count (P<0.05). Conclusion: Down-regulated of miR-23a expression in plasma of SLE may be involved in the SLE disease occurrence or development and can be used as a novel potential diagnostic biomarker for SLE.
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Received: 14 September 2015
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