Project description:To compare the circRNA expression profile of diabetic retinopathy with that of diabetes mellitus and controls, peripheral blood mononuclear cell samples were obtained and extracted from healthy controls and diabetes mellitus patients (with or without diabetic retinopathy). CircRNA Capital Bio Technology Human CircRNA Array v2 was performed to detect circRNA expression profiles. To further check differentiate circRNA, qRT_PCR assay was performed to detect the level of 5 candidates.
Project description:To evaluate whether serum micoRNAs can be biomarkers for diagnosis of type 1 diabetes mellitus, we analyzed the serum microRNA expression profiles in 6 patients with new-onset type 1 diabetes mellitus and 6 age- and gender-matched healthy controls. A difference was observed in 31 miRNAs between the patients and controls (fold change ≥ 2, P < 0.05)
Project description:Patients with hypertension alone, hypertension plus controlled diabetes and hypertension plus uncontrolled diabetes, and control patients without these conditions underwent coronary artery bypass grafting surgery. Skeletal muscle biopsy specimens were taken at the beginning ('pre-operative') and at the end ('post-operative') of the surgery.
Project description:Type 2 diabetes mellitus represents a major health problem with increasing prevalence worldwide. Limited efficacy of current therapies have prompted a search for novel therapeutic options. Here we show that treatment of pre-diabetic mice with mitochondrially targeted tamoxifen, a potential anti-cancer agent with senolytic activity, improves glucose tolerance and reduces body weight with most pronounced reduction of visceral adipose tissue due to reduced food intake, suppressed adipogenesis and elimination of senescent cells. Glucose-lowering effect of mitochondrially targeted tamoxifen is linked to improvement of type 2 diabetes mellitus-related hormones profile and is accompanied by reduced lipid accumulation in liver. Lower senescent cell burden in various tissues, as well as its inhibitory effect on pre-adipocyte differentiation, results in lower level of circulating inflammatory mediators that typically enhance metabolic dysfunction. Targeting senescence with mitochodrially targeted tamoxifen thus represents an approach to the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus and its related comorbidities, promising a complex impact on senescence-related pathologies in aging population of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus with potential translation into the clinic.
Project description:To characterize the human plasma microtranscriptome profile at first trimester of pregnancy in presence or not of pregnancy complications, we sequenced microRNAs in plasma samples collected from pregnant women between the 6th and the 15th weeks of pregnancy as a replication cohort. We then performed differential expression analyses to assess the miRNA profile diffrences according to the presence of pregnancy complications or not (i.e. Gestational diabetes mellitus, Gestational hypertension or preeclampsia vs. normal pregnancies).
Project description:The prognosis of pancreatic cancer is still very poor, how to detect pancreatic cancer from high-risk group in an early stage is essential for improving its long-time survival. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore specific biomarkers that can differentiate pancreatic cancer-associated diabetes from type-2 diabetes for the early detection of pancreatic cancer. In the current study, we used global gene transcription analysis with affymetrix gene chip to identify genes specifically expressed in pancreatic cancer-associated diabetes mellitus from peripheral blood samples in stead of from tissue samples. 32 peripheral blood samples were collected for microarray experiments to find differentially expressed genes specific for pancreatic cancer associated diabetes, which included 8 patients diagnosed as pancreatic cancer with diabetes, 8 patients of pancreatic cancer without diabetes, 8 patients with diabetes mellitus>5years and 8 healthy controls. the comparision was done between pancreatic cancer with diabetes vs normal, pancreatic cancer vs normal and diabetes vs normal to identify a small group of genes that differently expressed in the pancreatic cancer with diabetes group.
Project description:To characterize the human plasma microtranscriptome profile at first trimester of pregnancy in presence or not of pregnancy complications, we sequenced microRNAs in plasma samples collected from pregnant women between the 4th and the 16th weeks of pregnancy. We then performed differential expression analyses to assess the miRNA profile diffrences according to the presence of pregnancy complications or not (i.e. Gestational diabetes mellitus, Gestational hypertension or preeclampsia vs. normal pregnancies).
Project description:Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the common chronic complications of diabetes. Circular RNA (circRNA) plays a vital role in the pathological process of diabetic retinopathy (DR), this study aims to explore the differences in circRNA expression profiles and functions between DR and non-DR patients.Serum from diabetes mellitus (DM) patients with DR (n=5) and without DR (n=5) were extracted for circRNA microarray analysis using Arraystar Human circRNA expression profile (v2.0). Another 5 DR and 5 non-DR patients were included for quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) validation. Enriched signaling pathways were analyzed by GO and KEGG analysis. circRNA–miRNA networks were constructed by bioinformatics analysis.
