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ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2019

miR-146a Plasma Levels Are Not Altered in Alzheimer's Disease but Correlate With Age and Illness Severity.

Elisabetta Maffioletti, Elena Milanesi, Abulaish Ansari, Orazio Zanetti, Samantha Galluzzi, Cristina Geroldi, Massimo Gennarelli, Luisella Bocchio-Chiavetto

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Article in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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8 authors.

Elisabetta MaffiolettiGenetics Unit, IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy.
Elena MilanesiDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, "Victor Babes" National Institute of Pathology, Bucharest, Romania.
Abulaish AnsariDepartment of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Division of Biology and Genetics, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
Orazio ZanettiAlzheimer's Research Unit, Memory Clinic, IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy.
Samantha GalluzziLaboratory of Alzheimer's Neuroimaging and Epidemiology, IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy.
Cristina GeroldiAlzheimer's Research Unit, Memory Clinic, IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy.
Massimo GennarelliGenetics Unit, IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy.
Luisella Bocchio-ChiavettoGenetics Unit, IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

miR-146a is a microRNA (miRNA) involved in neuroinflammation and aging; alterations in its expression were described in Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, most of the studies conducted so far on this miRNA included a limited number of participants and produced contradictory results. We compared miR-146a levels in plasma from 33 AD patients vs. 28 age-matched non-affected controls (CTRL) through quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). No difference between the case and the control group was evidenced, but a correlation was detected between miR-146a levels and subjects' age (

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PMCPMC6978630

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