Sepsis

Investigators at Chinese Peoples' Liberation Army General Hospital Discuss Research in Sepsis

Published in Blood Weekly, March 29th, 2012

2012 MAR 29 -- According to the authors of a study from Beijing, People's Republic of China, "Serum micro-RNAs (miRNAs) can be used for the diagnosis and prognosis of various diseases. Using genome-wide scans, we sought to identify serum miRNAs that could be used as prognostic predictors for sepsis patients."

"We used microarray screens to identify differentially expressed serum miRNAs by comparing samples from 12 surviving and 12 nonsurviving sepsis patients. These differentially expressed serum miRNAs were validated by quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assays for 118 sepsis patients. The validated miRNAs along with sepsis...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2012-03-29)

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