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. 2018 Oct 12;2(4):NS20180139. doi: 10.1042/NS20180139

Table 4. microRNAs significantly affected in preeclampsia and by MitoQ-NP treatment.

microRNA Known relevant functions
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.