Figure 5
From: Increased microRNA-155 expression in the serum and peripheral monocytes in chronic HCV infection
Increased serum miR-155, miR-125b and miR-146a levels in chronic HCV-infected patients. A-C. 100ul of serum was used for total RNA isolation from both healthy controls (n = 12-18) and chronic HCV patients (n = 30-36) with miRNeasy kit (Qiagen). TaqMan miRNA assays (Applied Biosystems) were used to detect miRNA levels and C.elegans (Cel)-miR-39 was used to normalize the ct values. The non-parametric Mann–Whitney test was used for statistical analysis.