ArticleCell death discovery2021
A longitudinal study defined circulating microRNAs as reliable biomarkers for disease prognosis and progression in ALS human patients.
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- Cerebrospinal fluid and blood exosomes as biomarkers for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; a systematic review.Diagnostic pathology · 2024Pooled it
- A Machine Learning Approach for Highlighting microRNAs as Biomarkers Linked to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Diagnosis and Progression.Biomolecules · 2023Pooled it
- MicroRNAs in obesity, sarcopenia, and commonalities for sarcopenic obesity: a systematic review.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2022Pooled it
- Current potential biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: review of literature.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2026Review
- Systematic assessment for potential endogenous normalizers for microRNA analysis in fecal samples.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Modulation of the miR-485-3p/PGC-1α Pathway by ASO-Loaded Nanoparticles Attenuates ALS Pathogenesis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- IsomiR Utility in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Prognostication.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Re-Analyses of Samples From Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patients and Controls Identify Many Novel Small RNAs With Diagnostic And Prognostic Potential.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Article
- Inhibition of hypoxic exosomal miR-423-3p decreases glioma progression by restricting autophagy in astrocytes.Cell death & disease · 2025Article
- Exploring epigenetic modifications as potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.Journal of neurology · 2025Review
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- Deciphering the role of tRNA-derived fragments in neurological and psychiatric disease pathogenesis.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2025Review
- The Relevance of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Biomarkers in the Treatment Era.Biomedicines · 2024Review
- Extracellular microRNAs associated with psychiatric symptoms in the Normative Aging Study.Journal of psychiatric research · 2024Article
- Expression Changes of miRNAs in Humans and Animal Models of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Their Potential Application for Clinical Diagnosis.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of dysregulated microRNAs derived from liquid biopsies as biomarkers for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.Non-coding RNA research · 2024Article
- Exploring the Role of Extracellular Vesicles in Skeletal Muscle Regeneration.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
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Abstract
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease associated with motor neuron degeneration, muscle atrophy and paralysis. To date, multiple panels of biomarkers have been described in ALS patients and murine models. Nevertheless, none of them has sufficient specificity and thus the molecular signature for ALS prognosis and progression remains to be elucidated. Here we overcome this limitation through a longitudinal study, analyzing serum levels of circulating miRNAs, stable molecules that are recently used as promising biomarkers for many types of human disorders, in ALS patients during the progression of the pathology. We performed next-generation sequencing (NGS) analysis and absolute RT quantification of serum samples of ALS patients and healthy controls. The expression levels of five selected miRNAs were quantitatively analyzed during disease progression in each patient and we demonstrated that high levels of miR-206, miR-133a and miR-151a-5p can predict a slower clinical decline of patient functionality. In particular, we found that miR-206 and miR-151a-5p serum levels were significantly up-regulated at the mild stage of ALS pathology, to decrease in the following moderate and severe stages, whereas the expression levels of miR-133a and miR-199a-5p remained low throughout the course of the disease, showing a diagnostic significance in moderate and severe stages for miR-133a and in mild and terminal ones for miR-199a-5p. Moreover, we found that miR-423-3p and 151a-5p were significantly downregulated respectively in mild and terminal stages of the disease. These data suggest that these miRNAs represent potential prognostic markers for ALS disease.
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