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MicroRNAs Regulated by the LPS/TLR2 Immune Axis as Bona Fide Biomarkers for Diagnosis of Acute Leptospirosis.

Charles Solomon Akino Mercy, Natarajaseenivasan Suriya Muthukumaran, Prema Velusamy, Palanisamy Bothammal, Krishnamoorthi Sumaiya, Perumal Saranya, Dianne Langford, Santhanam Shanmughapriya, Kalimuthusamy Natarajaseenivasan

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Article in mSphere, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Charles Solomon Akino MercyMedical Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Centre for Excellence in Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.
Natarajaseenivasan Suriya MuthukumaranMedical Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Centre for Excellence in Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.
Prema VelusamyHeart and Vascular Institute, Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA.
Palanisamy BothammalMedical Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Centre for Excellence in Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.
Krishnamoorthi SumaiyaMedical Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Centre for Excellence in Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.
Perumal SaranyaMedical Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Centre for Excellence in Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.
Dianne LangfordDepartment of Neuroscience, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Santhanam ShanmughapriyaHeart and Vascular Institute, Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA ssanthanam@pennstatehealth.psu.edu tuf29518@temple.edu.
Kalimuthusamy NatarajaseenivasanMedical Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Centre for Excellence in Life Sciences, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India ssanthanam@pennstatehealth.psu.edu tuf29518@temple.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-7805-2666
Bharathidasan University · INPennsylvania State University · USTemple University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Leptospirosis remains a significant human health issue due to its systemic complications. Therefore, biomarkers that are more effective are urgently needed for the early diagnosis of leptospirosis. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are evolutionarily conserved regulatory RNAs that have shown the potential to be used as biomarkers for diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy of infectious diseases. In this study, we performed an unbiased screen using the miRNome miRNA array to identify circulating miRNAs with the potential to serve as authentic biomarkers for early diagnosis of leptospirosis. Because leptospiral lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is the predominant leptospiral antigen and plays a vital role in immunological and biological activities, we used LPS treated and untreated

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Acute DiseaseAnimalsAntigens, BacterialBiomarkersCell LineFemaleGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression RegulationHumansLeptospiraLeptospirosisLipopolysaccharidesMaleMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMicroRNAsAntigens, BacterialBiomarkersLipopolysaccharidesMicroRNAsToll-Like Receptor 2biomarkersleptospirosisLPSmicroRNAPPI networkTLR2

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PMID32669469
PMCPMC7364213
OpenAlexW3043092974

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