Figure 2.
miRNA profile and differential expression analysis. The graph shows the most abundant miRNAs in mice cortex samples, where 50% of all the reads are identified as seven miRNAs (miR-181a, miR-26a, miR-30, miR-125a/b, miR-486a/b) (A). We showed the condition-specific patterns of the expression of the miRNAs in the mice cortex samples (B). Validation of high throughput data by sensitivity levels of the NGS and RT-qPCR techniques indicate that miR-181a is the most abundant miRNA species and miR-96 is the lowest in both protocols (C). Analysis of miRNAs’ stability under our specific conditions (D). The profile of the miRNAs with a differential expression in the three study comparisons (TLR4-KO + EtOH vs. KO; WE vs. WT; KO vs. WT) was assessed.