Table 4. microRNAs significantly affected in preeclampsia and by MitoQ-NP treatment.
microRNA | Known relevant functions |
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Up-regulated in PE | |
hsa-miR-561-5p | Regulates 11β-HSD1, which is highly expressed in liver, adipose tissue and CNS [96] |
Associated with Parkinson’s disease [97] | |
hsa-miR-548ai+hsa-miR-570-5p | miR-570 associated with autism [98] and congenital heart disease [99] |
miR-570 regulates cytochrome P450 [100] | |
hsa-miR-196b-5p | Associated with ectopic pregnancy [101] |
Associated with endometriosis [102] | |
hsa-miR-2117 | None |
hsa-miR-3065-3p | None |
Down-regulated in PE | |
hsa-miR-596 | None |
hsa-miR-451a | Associated with type 2 diabetes [103] |
Listed are those microRNAs that were found to be up- or down-regulated in culture medium conditioned by preeclamptic placental explants, compared with healthy explants, and that were also affected in the opposite direction by treatment of the placenta with MitoQ-NPs but not blank-NPs.