SmallRNA seq of leukocytes of chronic pain patients (CRPS, Nerve lesion and Diabetes polyneuropathy) and an SNI mice model ncRNA pain consortium
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ABSTRACT: Chronic neuropathic pain is widespread, but individual diagnostic biomarkers are unknown and primate specificity hampers rodent validation tests. Here, we report that microRNA (miR)-sequencing of blood leukocytes from 250 multi-centre pain patients revealed complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)-related increases in the pain-related microRNA (miR)-21-5p and decreases in the cholinergic-targeted miR-335-5p. Both these miRs were similarly modified in dorsal root ganglia of nerve-injured mice, where long RNA-sequencing detected pain-associated elevation of neurogenesis and inflammation-related transcripts. Moreover, either genomic ablation or intrathecal antisense oligonucleotide neuro-suppression of miR-21a-5p, but not genetic debilitation of B7-H1 lymphocytes alleviated murine pain responses while reducing cellular pathways that are induced in patients’ leukocytes; and a cooperative leukocyte ‘signature’ of 12 miRs including miR-21a-5p and -335-5p predicted 96% of CRPS symptoms severity. Our findings implicate cholinergic-suppressible neuro-inflammation processes in chronic acute pain, suggest pathway-based cooperative validation tests and open unprecedented options for mechanistic studies of chronic pain disorders.
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE106837 | GEO | 2025/08/31
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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