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MicroRNA-21 promotes neurite outgrowth by regulating PDCD4 in a rat model of spinal cord injury

Altered expression levels of microRNA-21 (miRNA-21) have been observed in a series of pathological processes, including cancer and central nervous system injury; however, the involvement of miRNA-21 in the molecular pathophysiology of spinal cord injury (SCI) has not been well documented. The presen...

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Autores principales: Jiang, Yuqing, Zhao, Shujie, Ding, Yin, Nong, Luming, Li, Haibo, Gao, Gongming, Zhou, Dong, Xu, Nanwei
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Publicado: D.A. Spandidos 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5548018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28656242
http://dx.doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2017.6862
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author Jiang, Yuqing
Zhao, Shujie
Ding, Yin
Nong, Luming
Li, Haibo
Gao, Gongming
Zhou, Dong
Xu, Nanwei
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Zhao, Shujie
Ding, Yin
Nong, Luming
Li, Haibo
Gao, Gongming
Zhou, Dong
Xu, Nanwei
author_sort Jiang, Yuqing
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description Altered expression levels of microRNA-21 (miRNA-21) have been observed in a series of pathological processes, including cancer and central nervous system injury; however, the involvement of miRNA-21 in the molecular pathophysiology of spinal cord injury (SCI) has not been well documented. The present study examined the expression levels of miRNA-21 and its predicted target genes, programmed cell death 4 (PDCD4) and phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN), in rats using quantitative polymerase chain reaction and western blotting to further understand the role of miRNA-21 and the mechanisms underlying repair following SCI. The present study demonstrated that compared with uninjured spinal cords, miRNA-21 expression levels were significantly downregulated in injured spinal cords 4 and 8 h, and 1 day post-SCI, and were significantly upregulated after 3 and 7 days. Conversely, expression levels of PDCD4 and PTEN were significantly decreased at days 3 and 7 post-SCI compared with the control group. miRNA-21 overexpression in monolayer-cultured postnatal rat spinal cord neurons promoted neurite outgrowth and downregulated protein expression levels of PDCD4; however, PTEN protein expression levels were unaltered. To confirm that miRNA-21 directly targets PDCD4, a pRL-CMV luciferase reporter construct was used to detect miRNA-21 interactions with the PDCD4 3′-untranslated region. The results demonstrated that miRNA-21 decreased luciferase activity compared with a rat PDCD4 control reporter. The results of the present study suggested that increased miRNA-21 expression levels following SCI may promote the repair of injured spinal cords by inhibiting the expression of its target gene PDCD4.
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spelling pubmed-55480182017-10-24 MicroRNA-21 promotes neurite outgrowth by regulating PDCD4 in a rat model of spinal cord injury Jiang, Yuqing Zhao, Shujie Ding, Yin Nong, Luming Li, Haibo Gao, Gongming Zhou, Dong Xu, Nanwei Mol Med Rep Articles Altered expression levels of microRNA-21 (miRNA-21) have been observed in a series of pathological processes, including cancer and central nervous system injury; however, the involvement of miRNA-21 in the molecular pathophysiology of spinal cord injury (SCI) has not been well documented. The present study examined the expression levels of miRNA-21 and its predicted target genes, programmed cell death 4 (PDCD4) and phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN), in rats using quantitative polymerase chain reaction and western blotting to further understand the role of miRNA-21 and the mechanisms underlying repair following SCI. The present study demonstrated that compared with uninjured spinal cords, miRNA-21 expression levels were significantly downregulated in injured spinal cords 4 and 8 h, and 1 day post-SCI, and were significantly upregulated after 3 and 7 days. Conversely, expression levels of PDCD4 and PTEN were significantly decreased at days 3 and 7 post-SCI compared with the control group. miRNA-21 overexpression in monolayer-cultured postnatal rat spinal cord neurons promoted neurite outgrowth and downregulated protein expression levels of PDCD4; however, PTEN protein expression levels were unaltered. To confirm that miRNA-21 directly targets PDCD4, a pRL-CMV luciferase reporter construct was used to detect miRNA-21 interactions with the PDCD4 3′-untranslated region. The results demonstrated that miRNA-21 decreased luciferase activity compared with a rat PDCD4 control reporter. The results of the present study suggested that increased miRNA-21 expression levels following SCI may promote the repair of injured spinal cords by inhibiting the expression of its target gene PDCD4. D.A. Spandidos 2017-09 2017-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5548018/ /pubmed/28656242 http://dx.doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2017.6862 Text en Copyright: © Jiang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Jiang, Yuqing
Zhao, Shujie
Ding, Yin
Nong, Luming
Li, Haibo
Gao, Gongming
Zhou, Dong
Xu, Nanwei
MicroRNA-21 promotes neurite outgrowth by regulating PDCD4 in a rat model of spinal cord injury
title MicroRNA-21 promotes neurite outgrowth by regulating PDCD4 in a rat model of spinal cord injury
title_full MicroRNA-21 promotes neurite outgrowth by regulating PDCD4 in a rat model of spinal cord injury
title_fullStr MicroRNA-21 promotes neurite outgrowth by regulating PDCD4 in a rat model of spinal cord injury
title_full_unstemmed MicroRNA-21 promotes neurite outgrowth by regulating PDCD4 in a rat model of spinal cord injury
title_short MicroRNA-21 promotes neurite outgrowth by regulating PDCD4 in a rat model of spinal cord injury
title_sort microrna-21 promotes neurite outgrowth by regulating pdcd4 in a rat model of spinal cord injury
topic Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5548018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28656242
http://dx.doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2017.6862
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