Trial reportPloS one2014
Profiles of extracellular miRNA in cerebrospinal fluid and serum from patients with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases correlate with disease status and features of pathology.
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223 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 388 citations in OpenAlex.
- Common miRNAs, Genes, and Regulatory Pathways in Alzheimer's Disease and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: An Integrative Analysis of Systematic Reviews, Bioinformatics and Data Mining.Journal of neurochemistry · 2025Pooled it
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- MicroRNAs in Parkinson's disease: a systematic review and diagnostic accuracy meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2023Pooled it
- Differentially Expressed miRNAs in Age-Related Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Meta-Analysis.Genes · 2022Pooled it
- MicroRNA as Candidate Biomarkers in Atypical Parkinsonian Syndromes: Systematic Literature Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Circulatory microRNAs in Major Depressive Disorder: Potential Biomarkers for Disease Prognosis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of MicroRNA Expression as Biomarker of Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease.Molecular neurobiology · 2019Pooled it
- Systematic Review of miRNA as Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease.Molecular neurobiology · 2019Pooled it
- Exercise - induced changes in cerebrospinal fluid miRNAs in Gulf War Illness, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and sedentary control subjects.Scientific reports · 2017Trial
- Peripheral and Central miRNA Signatures in Alzheimer's Disease: Tissue-Specific Variability, Sex-Associated Differences, and Implications for Blood-Based Biomarkers.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Fecal miRNome and Proteome Profiling Uncovers Stage-Specific Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease in 3×Tg-AD Mice.Cellular and molecular neurobiology · 2026Article
- Molecular mechanisms and therapeutic potential of tryptophan metabolism in gut-brain signaling transduction: a narrative review.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026Review
- Differentially expressed miRNAs in the temporal cortex of Alzheimer's disease patients and their association to tau pathology.Communications biology · 2026Article
- MicroRNAs and Long Non-Coding RNAs Affect the Mechanisms Involved in Age-Related Neurodegeneration in a Manner Depending on RNA-Binding Proteins.Molecular neurobiology · 2026Review
- Plasma multi-miRNA models classify Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Lewy body dementia.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2026Article
- Investigating Serum miRNA Levels in Autistic Children with and without Bipolar Disorder: A Case-Control Study.Noro psikiyatri arsivi · 2026Article
- MicroRNAs in neurodegenerative diseases: from molecular mechanisms to clinical biomarkers, detection methods and therapeutic strategies-advances and challenges.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025Review
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- Peripheral Choroid/RPE/Sclera as a Shared Pathogenic Hub: Multi-Tissue Transcriptomic Profiling Identifies Common Differentially Expressed Genes in Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Alzheimer's Disease.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Article
- Decoding the Potential Impact of Plasma hsa-miR-24-3p and hsa-miR-181 d-3p Expression, Plasma IFN-γ Levels, and IFNG rs2069727 T/C Genetic Variant on Multiple Sclerosis Risk and Glatiramer Acetate Treatment.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
The discovery and reliable detection of markers for neurodegenerative diseases have been complicated by the inaccessibility of the diseased tissue--such as the inability to biopsy or test tissue from the central nervous system directly. RNAs originating from hard to access tissues, such as neurons within the brain and spinal cord, have the potential to get to the periphery where they can be detected non-invasively. The formation and extracellular release of microvesicles and RNA binding proteins have been found to carry RNA from cells of the central nervous system to the periphery and protect the RNA from degradation. Extracellular miRNAs detectable in peripheral circulation can provide information about cellular changes associated with human health and disease. In order to associate miRNA signals present in cell-free peripheral biofluids with neurodegenerative disease status of patients with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, we assessed the miRNA content in cerebrospinal fluid and serum from postmortem subjects with full neuropathology evaluations. We profiled the miRNA content from 69 patients with Alzheimer's disease, 67 with Parkinson's disease and 78 neurologically normal controls using next generation small RNA sequencing (NGS). We report the average abundance of each detected miRNA in cerebrospinal fluid and in serum and describe 13 novel miRNAs that were identified. We correlated changes in miRNA expression with aspects of disease severity such as Braak stage, dementia status, plaque and tangle densities, and the presence and severity of Lewy body pathology. Many of the differentially expressed miRNAs detected in peripheral cell-free cerebrospinal fluid and serum were previously reported in the literature to be deregulated in brain tissue from patients with neurodegenerative disease. These data indicate that extracellular miRNAs detectable in the cerebrospinal fluid and serum are reflective of cell-based changes in pathology and can be used to assess disease progression and therapeutic efficacy.
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