Fig. 3

miRs expression levels in plaque material. Relative expression levels of mir21-5p, miR155-5p, miR125a-5p, miR424-5p, miR126-5p and miR146-5p in plaque material. Relative changes in miRNA expression levels were calculated according to the ΔΔCt method relative to the patient with the lowest expression level of the target gene (grey bar) as described in Materials and Methods-Online. ***P < 0.001, **P < 0.01 and *P < 0.05, significantly different from the control (grey bar)