Differential Expression Profiles and Functional Predication of Circular Ribonucleic Acid in Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury of Rats.

Recent studies indicate that circular ribonucleic acids (circRNAs) are involved in a variety of human diseases. The roles of circRNAs in traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) remain unknown, however. We performed RNA-seq to analyze the circRNA expression profile in rat spinal cord after SCI and to investigate the relevant mechanisms.