MiRNA Expression in Fibroblastic Foci within Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Lungs Reveals Novel Disease-Relevant Pathways.

ABSTRACT: miRNAs are 22 nucleotides long and belong to a class of noncoding RNAs that plays an important role in regulating gene expression at a post-transcriptional level. Studies show aberrant levels of miRNAs to be associated with profibrotic processes in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). However, most of these studies used whole IPF tissue or in vitro monocultures in which fibrosis was artificially induced. The current study used laser microdissection to collect fibroblastic foci (FF), the key pathologic lesion in IPF, isolated miRNAs, and compared their expression levels with those found in whole IPF lung tissue and/or in vitro cultured fibroblast from IPF or normal lungs. Sequencing libraries were generated, and data generated were bioinformatically analyzed. A total of 18 miRNAs were signi

SUBMITTER: Sabater L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12178335 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature