Research Article

Expression Profiling and Clinical Significance of Plasma MicroRNAs in Diabetic Nephropathy

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Comparison of the expression levels of miRNAs between the Mac and Mic groups. The miRNA expression levels were determined by quantitative real-time PCR. The expression of miR-150-5p (a) and miR-155-5p (b) was approximately 2.3-fold () and 1.5-fold () higher in the Mic group, when compared to the Mac group, respectively. There were no significant differences in the expression levels of miR-30e (c), miR-3196 (d), miR-320e (e), and let-7a (f) between these two groups. Mic: microalbuminuria (); Mac: macroalbuminuria (). The error bars are presented as standard error of the mean (SEM).
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