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. 2021 May 1;22(9):4819. doi: 10.3390/ijms22094819

Figure 7.

Figure 7

GeromiRs downregulated in the TME. (A) Venn diagram of the intersection between the downregulated differentially expressed miRNAs (DEMs) in the colorectal cancer (CRC) liver tumor microenvironment (TME) cells and the geromiRs. (B) Heatmap of aging-related miRNAs and their annotation with different aging hallmarks. D: altered DNA damage response, T: loss of telomeres, G: changes in gene regulation, M: DNA methylation, H: histone modifications, S: regulation of splicing, P: changes to protein homeostasis, N: altered nutrient sensing, m: mitochondrial dysfunction, S: cellular senescence, E: stem cell exhaustion, I: inflammaging, s: Sirtuins, h: stem cell homeostasis, i: insulin/IGF1, C: altered intercellular communication. The samples are denoted with E, I and K for endothelial, Ito and Kupffer cells, and C and T for the control and the TME cells, respectively. TP and TM denote the CRC primary and liver metastasis cells, respectively. (C) Violin plots of the expression distribution of the miRNAs associated with the hallmarks of eukaryotic aging. The crosses represent the position of the means, while the black points represent the spread of the expression of the miRNAs used to build the distributions.