Relationship between elevated microRNAs and growth factors levels in the vitreous of patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy

The aim of this study was to identify differentially expressed microRNAs (miRNAs) in the vitreous of patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) and correlate some of them with growth factors.Vitreous samples were collected from 5 PDR eyes and 5 control eyes, and then miRNAs were assayed with next-generation sequencing (NGS). Three differentially expressed miRNAs were validated in vitreous of another cohort using reverse transcriptase...