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Co-Expression Network Analysis of Micro-RNAs and Proteins in the Alzheimer's Brain: A Systematic Review of Studies in the Last 10 Years.
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- Circadian rhythms and chronotherapy in Alzheimer's disease: Mechanisms and therapeutic implications.Neuroprotection (Chichester, England) · 2026Review
- Investigating the molecular mechanisms of glutamine metabolism and mitochondria-related biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease through transcriptomics and experimental validation.European journal of medical research · 2026Article
- miR-132 and Its Exosomal Form in Alzheimer's Disease: Linking Epigenetic Regulation to Neurodegeneration.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Review
- Brain microRNAs differentially expressed in age-related cerebral pathologies.Neurobiology of aging · 2025Article
- DRaCOon: a novel algorithm for pathway-level differential co-expression analysis in transcriptomics.BMC bioinformatics · 2025Article
- MST1, a novel therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease, regulates mitochondrial homeostasis by mediating mitochondrial DNA transcription and the PI3K-Akt-ROS pathway.Journal of translational medicine · 2024Article
- Identification of Autophagy-Related Biomarkers and Diagnostic Model in Alzheimer's Disease.Genes · 2024Article
- Deciphering Cell-Cell Interactions with Integrative Single-Cell Secretion Profiling.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- Shared miRNA landscapes of COVID-19 and neurodegeneration confirm neuroinflammation as an important overlapping feature.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2023Article
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- Fission Impossible: Stabilized miRNA-Based Analogs in Neurodegenerative Disease.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding nucleic acids that can regulate post-transcriptional gene expression by binding to complementary sequences of target mRNA. Evidence showed that dysregulated miRNA expression may be associated with neurological conditions such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). In this study, we combined the results of two independent systematic reviews aiming to unveil the co-expression network of miRNAs and proteins in brain tissues of AD patients. Twenty-eight studies including a total of 113 differentially expressed miRNAs (53 of them validated by qRT-PCR), and 26 studies including a total of 196 proteins differentially expressed in AD brains compared to healthy age matched controls were selected. Pathways analyses were performed on the results of the two reviews and 39 common pathways were identified. A further bioinformatic analysis was performed to match miRNA and protein targets with an inverse relation. This revealed 249 inverse relationships in 28 common pathways, representing new potential targets for therapeutic intervention. A meta-analysis, whenever possible, revealed miR-132-3p and miR-16 as consistently downregulated in late-stage AD across the literature. While no inverse relationships between miR-132-3p and proteins were found, miR-16's inverse relationship with CLOCK proteins in the circadian rhythm pathway is discussed and therapeutic targets are proposed. The most significant miRNA dysregulated pathway highlighted in this review was the hippo signaling pathway with
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