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(Submitter supplied) Osteoarthritis (OA) of spine (facet joints; FJ) is one of the major causes of severe low back pain and disability worldwide. The degeneration of facet cartilage is a hallmark of FJ OA. However, endogenous mechanisms that initiate degeneration of facet cartilage are unknown and there are no disease-modifying therapies to stop FJ OA. In this study we performed microRNA array analysis to identify differentially expressed microRNAs in facet cartilage from patients with FJ OA compared to facet cartilage from patients with lumbar disc herniation (LDH).

Organism:

Human alphaherpesvirus 2; Betapolyomavirus hominis; Homo sapiens; Macacine alphaherpesvirus 1; Merkel cell polyomavirus; Human alphaherpesvirus 1; Human betaherpesvirus 5; human gammaherpesvirus 4; Human betaherpesvirus 6B; Betapolyomavirus macacae; Herpesvirus saimiri (strain 11); JC polyomavirus; Human immunodeficiency virus 1; Human gammaherpesvirus 8

Type:

Non-coding RNA profiling by array

Platform:

GPL21599

4 Samples

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(Submitter supplied) Objective: microRNAs (miRs) are small non-coding molecules that regulate post-transcriptional target gene expression and are involved in mechano-regulation of cellular activities in all physiological systems. It is unknown whether such epigenetic mechanisms are regulated in response to increasing magnitudes of load. This study investigated mechano-regulation of miRs in articular cartilage subjected to ‘physiological’ and ‘non-physiological’ compressive loads in vitro as a model system and validated findings in an in vivo model of abnormal joint loading. more...

Organism:

Bos taurus

Type:

Non-coding RNA profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platform:

GPL15749

22 Samples

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