Project description:To reveal the relationship between circulating exosomal miRNAs and the disease severity of psoriasis, we performed next-generation sequencing from plasma exosomes of patients with high psoriasis area and severity index (PASI) score (>10) and low PASI score (<5). We identified 19 differentially expressed exosomal miRNAs that were significantly different between the groups. We validated the top three up-and down-regulated exosomal miRNAs using quantitative real-time PCR.
Project description:Preeclampsia (PE) and its related diseases is one of the most significant pregnancy complications, occurring at an incidence of 3-5% and is responsible for nearly 40% of premature births delivered before 35 weeks. There is a need to develop strategies for early prediction of patients who will develop PE, in order to establish preventive strategies to reduce the prevalence and severity of the disease and their associated aftereffects. Therefore, a prospective cohort of patients were recruited at three time points during pregnancy for each patient (i.e. 11-14 (early gestational age), 22-24 (middle gestational age) and 32-36 (late gestational age) weeks gestation). A retrospective stratified study design was used to characterize miRNAs in exosomes derived from maternal plasma of normal (n=32 per time point) and PE (n=15 per time point) pregnancies.