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Nociceptive related microRNAs and their role in rheumatoid arthritis

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Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease with unknown etiology and a global incidence around 1%, a positive family history increases the risk of RA roughly three to five times. Pain is one of the first symptoms to appear in this disease. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) belong to the class of small non-coding RNAs; they regulate multiple cellular processes including embryonic development, cellular proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis among others. A great deal of evidence points to the employment of miRNAs as therapeutic targets and biomarkers for several pathologies. The main objective of this Review is to assess how miRNAs participate in the pathogenesis of RA. Two advanced searches were conducted in databases, one using “micro-RNA” and “rheumatoid arthritis” as key words, and another one with “micro-RNA”, “pain” and “nociception”. In this Review, we describe how six miRNAs: miR-16-5p, miR-23b-3b, miR-124-3p, miR-146a-5p, miR-155-5p and miR-223-3p, involved in the modulation and transmission of the nociceptive input are unregulated in RA patients. Key molecular pathways involved in nociception, inflammation and autoimmune responses, are regulated by these miRNAs; the NF-κB, TNF-α, interleukins and TLR4. By means of gene repression, the miRNAs here described modulate the nociceptive process as well as the autoimmune response that characterize this disease.

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  1. Department of Neurosciences, Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación “Luis Guillermo Ibarra Ibarra”, Calzada México-Xochimilco 289, Col. Arenal de Guadalupe, Del. Tlalpan, 14389, Mexico City, Mexico

    S. Reyes-Long, J. L. Cortes-Altamirano, C. Bandala & A. Alfaro-Rodríguez

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Reyes-Long, S., Cortes-Altamirano, J.L., Clavijio-Cornejo, D. et al. Nociceptive related microRNAs and their role in rheumatoid arthritis. Mol Biol Rep 47, 7265–7272 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-020-05700-3

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