Journal: Frontiers in Immunology
Article Title: Aberrant STAT3 activation and overproduction of IL-21 in systemic lupus erythematosus: role of miR-155 and miR-21 in target genes SOCS1, PTEN and PIAS3
doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2026.1664409
Figure Lengend Snippet: Correlation among miR-155, miR-21, SOCS1 mRNA, PTEN mRNA, PIAS3 mRNA and IL21 mRNA in HC and SLE patients. (A) correlation between the miR-155, miR-21, SOCS1 mRNA, PTEN mRNA, PIAS3 mRNA and IL21 mRNA non-stimulated in HC, (B) correlation between the miR-155, miR-21, SOCS1 mRNA, PTEN mRNA, PIAS3 mRNA and IL21 mRNA after stimulation with PMA+IONO in HC, (C) correlation between the miR-155, miR-21, SOCS1 mRNA, PTEN mRNA, PIAS3 mRNA and IL21 mRNA non-stimulated in SLE patients, (D) correlation between the miR-155, miR-21, SOCS1 mRNA, PTEN mRNA, PIAS3 mRNA and IL21 mRNA after stimulation with PMA+IONO in SLE patients. p-value was obtained using Spearman’s correlation. *p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤ 0.001, ***p ≤ 0.0001.
Article Snippet: TaqMan probes (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA) were used for qPCR: SOCS1 (Hs00705164_s1), PTEN (Hs0262621230_s1), PIAS3 (Hs00966035_m1) and IL21 (Hs00222327_m1), using the following incubation conditions: 50°C for 2 minutes, 95°C for 20 seconds and 40 cycles of 95°C for 1 second and 60°C for 20 seconds.
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