Authors: Abdel-Rasheed, Mazen
Nour Eldeen, Ghada
Mahmoud, Marwa
ElHefnawi, Mahmoud
Abu-Shahba, Nourhan
Reda, Mohamed
Elsetohy, Khaled
Nabil, Michael
Elnoury, Amr
Taha, Tamer
Azmy, Osama
Title: MicroRNA expression analysis in endometriotic serum treated mesenchymal stem cells
Language (ISO): en
Abstract: Endometriosis is defined by presence of endometrial-like-tissue outside the uterus. Recently, ectopic endometriotic lesions have been suggested to originate by abnormal differentiation of endometrial mesenchymal stem cells (eMSCs). MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play an important role in the pathophysiology of endometriosis. Through a PCR array approach, we aimed to assess the differential expression of microRNAs in human eMSC treated in culture with sera derived from women with severe endometriosis. Sera were collected from five patients with severe endometriosis and three control women and added individually in the culture medium to conduct experimental and control eMSC sets, respectively. Regular microscopic follow-up for cell morphology was performed. SYBR Green based real-time PCR array was used to assess the expression of 84 miRNAs. Bioinformatics analysis was done to predict the target genes of the significantly dysregulated miRNAs and their enriched biological processes and pathways. Thirty-two miRNAs were found significantly dysregulated in experimental cultures. Functional enrichment analysis revealed several endometriosis associated biological processes and pathways were enriched by target genes of these miRNAs. In conclusion, treatment of human eMSCs with sera of severe endometriosis cases affects the expression of certain miRNAs and their target genes. This may result in altering cell functions and consequently, endometriosis development.
Subject Headings: endometriosis
mesenchymal stem cells
miRNA expression
differentiation
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2003/36184
http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-18200
Issue Date: 2017-06-14
Rights link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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