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. 2022 Apr 12;6(3):224–232. doi: 10.22603/ssrr.2021-0229

Table 2.

Comparison of the Results of Biomarkers between Cases and Controls in Recent Studies.

Year First author Materials Biomarkers Case (number) Control (number) Data in case Data in control p-value Results
1 2019 Xu C plasma or serum 10 miRNAs 68 OPLL 45 disc herniation, 53 none myelopathy
miR-10a-3p Increase
miR-10a-5p Increase
miR-563 Increase
miR-210-3p Increase
miR218-3p Increase
miR-196b-5p Decrease
miR-129-3p Decrease
miR-199b-5p Decrease
miR212-3p Decrease
miR-218-3p Decrease
2 2020 Ohshima Y blood HbA1C>6.5%-no. (%) 120 OPLL 1669 none OPLL 24 (20%) 185 (11%) 0.003 higher incodence
TG>150mg/dL-no. (%) 35 (29%) 348 (21%) 0.03 higher incodence
UA>7.0mg/dL-no. (%) 25 (21%) 278 (17%) 0.239 NS
3 2019 Wang P plasma IL 17RC, rs199772854C/A 72 T-OPLL <0.001 IL17RC was higher in A than C polymorphism
4 2018 Tsuru M serum chemokine (C-X-C motif) ligand 7 (CXCL7) 13 OPLL 7 healthy control <0.05 Decrease
5 2007 Eun JP serum (proteomics) 9 spots 6 OPLL 6 normal subjects change in ratio
PRO2675 2.81±0.40 Increase
Human serum albumin in a complex with myristic acid and tri-iodobenzoic acid 3.98±0.65 Increase
Unknown (protein for IMAGE: 3934797) 2.55±0.38 Increase
Chain B, crystal structure of deoxy-human hemoglobin beta6 9.12±0.95 Increase
Pro-apolipoprotein 7.66±0.87 Increase
ALB protein 4.79±0.68 Increase
Retinol binding protein 3.10±0.56 Increase
Chain A, human serum albumin mutant R218h complexed with thyroxine (3,3,5,5, tetraiodo-L-thyronine) 2.36±0.33 Increase
1-microglobulin/bikunin precursor 0.19±0.15 Decrease
6 2020 Li J serum(metabolomics and transcriptomics) uric acid 25 T-OLF 23 healthy volunteers Increase
triacetin Increase
hypoxanthine Increase
pyrimidine metabolism Increase
purine metabolism Increase
7 2014 Oh YM PLL tisuue 25 proteins, Upregulated 12 OPLL 12 none OPLL
Chain A, Thiredoxin peroxidase B Upregulated
Immunogloblin kappa right chainVLJ region Upregulated
Ig kappa chain NIG26 Precursor Upregulated
Drug-protein interaction: structure of sulfonamide drug complexed with human carbonic anhydrase I Upregulated
Hypothetical protein Upregulated
4 proteins, Downregulated
Apolipoprotein A Downregulated
Proapolipoprotein Downregulated
8 2015 Zhang Y PLL tissue(proteomic profiling+mRNA expression) 3 proteins, up-rehulated by proteomic profiling and 1 marker confirmed by mRNA expressuion 4 OPLL 4 none OPLL
N-RAP Upregulated
18 proteins, down regulated by proteomic profiling and 2 markers confirmed by mRNA expressuion
NSDHL Downregulated
Viα1 Downregulated

PLL: posterior longitudinal ligament HbA1C: glycated hemoglobin OPLL: ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament NS: not significant

TG: triglycerides OLF: ossification of the ligamentum flavum

UA: uric acid T-OPLL: thoracic OPLL

IL17RC: interleukin-17 receptor C T-OLF: thoracic OLF

N-RAP: nebulin-related anchoring protein

NSDHL: NAD (P) dependent steroid dehydrogenase-like

VIα1: collagen VI alpha-1