Table 3. A comparison of the profile of the most abundant microRNA in blood and lung found in the current study compared to those of Spornraft et al. and Caruso et al.
| Most highly expressed (top20) miRNA | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current study | Previous studies 16,17 | ||||||||||
| rat blood | read counts (n = 6) | % top 20 | rat lung | read counts (n = 6) | % top 20 | bovine blood | rpm16 (n = 9) | % top 10 | male rat lung | absolute levels17(n = 5) | % top 20 |
| rno-miR-486-5p | 1940840 | 94.91 | rno-miR-143-3p | 174207 | 28.57 | bta-miR-451 | 74917 | 27.5 | rno-miR-26a | 11526 | 10.1 |
| rno-miR-92a-3p | 23299 | 1.14 | rno-miR-10a-5p | 84796 | 13.91 | bta-miR-486 | 58400 | 21.4 | rno-miR-126 | 11056 | 9.7 |
| rno-miR-191a-5p | 21565 | 1.05 | rno-miR-26a-5p | 36273 | 5.95 | bta-miR-25 | 40788 | 15 | rno-let-7a | 9747 | 8.5 |
| rno-miR-16-5p | 9957 | 0.49 | rno-miR-30a-5p | 35274 | 5.79 | bta-miR-92a | 38089 | 14 | rno-let-7c | 8762 | 7.7 |
| rno-miR-3596a | 7150 | 0.35 | rno-miR-3596a | 32088 | 5.26 | bta-miR-191 | 13807 | 5.1 | rno-let-7f | 8290 | 7.2 |
| rno-miR-25-3p | 6881 | 0.34 | rno-miR-99b-5p | 28132 | 4.61 | bta-let-7i | 11134 | 4.1 | rno-let-7b | 7268 | 6.4 |
| rno-miR-26a-5p | 6610 | 0.32 | rno-miR-486-5p | 27940 | 4.58 | bta-miR-185 | 9136 | 3.4 | rno-miR-23b | 6669 | 5.8 |
| rno-miR-451-5p | 4558 | 0.22 | rno-let-7f-5p | 24028 | 3.94 | bta-miR-339a | 8965 | 3.3 | rno-miR-23a | 6618 | 5.8 |
| rno-let-7i-5p | 3874 | 0.19 | rno-miR-126a-5p | 22723 | 3.73 | bta-miR-26a | 8823 | 3.2 | rno-let-7d | 6525 | 5.7 |
| rno-miR-181a-5p | 3794 | 0.19 | rno-miR-181a-5p | 20558 | 3.37 | bta-miR-21-5p | 8364 | 3.1 | rno-miR-145 | 4950 | 4.3 |
| rno-let-7f-5p | 3021 | 0.15 | rno-miR-146b-5p | 17794 | 2.92 | rno-let-7i | 4293 | 3.8 | |||
| rno-let-7c-5p | 2780 | 0.14 | rno-miR-22-3p | 16162 | 2.65 | rno-miR-30c | 4085 | 3.6 | |||
| rno-miR-151-3p | 2393 | 0.12 | rno-miR-125a-5p | 15567 | 2.55 | rno-miR-16 | 4051 | 3.5 | |||
| rno-miR-27b-3p | 2224 | 0.11 | rno-miR-30d-5p | 13955 | 2.29 | rno-miR-30b-5p | 3716 | 3.2 | |||
| rno-let-7a-5p | 1291 | 0.06 | rno-miR-191a-5p | 12568 | 2.06 | rno-miR-125b-5p | 3117 | 2.7 | |||
| rno-let-7b-5p | 1112 | 0.05 | rno-miR-126a-3p | 11732 | 1.92 | rno-miR-195 | 3062 | 2.7 | |||
| rno-miR-30a-5p | 1041 | 0.05 | rno-miR-27b-3p | 10674 | 1.75 | rno-let-7e | 2978 | 2.6 | |||
| rno-miR-140-3p | 876 | 0.04 | rno-miR-92a-3p | 9513 | 1.56 | rno-miR-24 | 2724 | 2.4 | |||
| rno-miR-186-5p | 812 | 0.04 | rno-miR-151-3p | 8838 | 1.45 | rno-miR-26b | 2709 | 2.4 | |||
| rno-let-7d-5p | 809 | 0.04 | rno-let-7i-5p | 6882 | 1.13 | rno-miR-29a | 2271 | 2.0 | |||
In the study of Spornraft et al.16, read counts were presented in reads per million (rpm) and n = 9; in the study of Caruso et al.17, counts were presented as absolute levels and n = 5; in the current study, total read counts were shown and n is 6 libraries, each of which included pooled RNA from 3 rats.