Table 2.

Both miR-21-5p and miR-23a-3p gene expressions are negatively correlated with several predicted target gene expressions.

microRNA/Predicted Target Gene	TNF-α	TLR4	TLR6	NFAT5	ELF2	HIF-2α	EDNRB	SP1	PDCD4	IRF1	Correlation Coefficient/p value
miR-21	−0.431	−0.386	−0.436	−0.473	−0.569	−0.429	−0.545	−0.604	−0.653	−0.359	R
	<0.001	0.003	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.005	p
miR-23a	−0.356	−0.346	−0.374	−0.377	−0.493	−0.366	−0.505	−0.551	−0.612	−0.276	R
	0.001	0.008	0.001	0.004	<0.001	0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.038	p