MicroRNA expression profiling in HCV-infected human hepatoma cells identifies potential anti-viral targets induced by interferon-α.

Objective: Increasing evidence suggests that miRNAs have a profound impact on host defense to Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and clinical outcome of standard HCV therapy. In this study, we investigated modulation of miRNA expression in Huh7.5 hepatoma cells by HCV infection and in vitro interferon-αtreatment.

Elevated miR-155 promotes inflammation in cystic fibrosis by driving hyperexpression of interleukin-8.

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is characterized by a massive proinflammatory phenotype in the lung arising from profound expression of inflammatory genes, including interleukin-8 (IL-8). We have previously reported that IL-8 mRNA is stabilized in CF lung epithelial cells, resulting in concomitant hyperexpression of IL-8 protein. However, the mechanistic link between mutations in CFTR and acquisition of the proinflammatory phenotype in the CF airway has remained elusive.

Differential expression of miRNAs in the visceral adipose tissue of patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Background: Progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) can be facilitated by soluble molecules secreted by visceral adipose tissue (VAT). MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are likely to regulate some of these molecular pathways involved in pathogenesis of NAFLD.

Aim: To profile miRNA expression in the visceral adipose tissue of patients with NAFLD.

Multiple congenital plaquelike glomuvenous malformations with type 2 segmental involvement.

Multiple congenital glomuvenous malformations (GVMs) are rare. Almost all reported cases describe the multiple congenital plaquelike GVM variant. We report a case of multiple congenital plaquelike GVMs suggestive of type 2 segmental involvement following Blaschko lines.

Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome with migraine-like headaches treated with minocycline: a case report and review of the literature.

Cheilitis granulomatosa (CG), which presents clinically as persistent lip swelling, is characterized histologically by noncaseating granulomatous inflammation of unknown origin. CG may also be part of the classic triad of the Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome (MRS) and alone is considered by some to be an oligosymptomatic form of MRS. We report a case of CG associated with migraine-like headaches in a 44-year-old woman.