Ingrid de Siqueira Pereira, Allecineia Bispo da Cruz, Marta Marques Maia, Francieli Marinho Carneiro, Ricardo Gava, Lígia Cosentino Junqueira Franco Spegiorin, Cinara Cássia Brandão, Ingrid Gomes de Campos Truzzi, Geraldo Magela de Faria Junior, Luiz Carlos de Mattos, Vera Lucia Pereira-Chioccola, Cristina Silva Meira-Strejevitch
Toxoplasmosis causes serious harm to the fetus, as tachyzoite dissemination, during pregnancy in women developing the primo-infection. The microRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs, which have regulatory roles in cells by silencing messenger RNA. Circulating miRNA are promising biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis of numerous diseases. The miRNAs levels are estimated by quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR), however, the relative quantification of each miRNA expression requires proper normalization methods using endogenous miRNAs as control...
September 2, 2023: Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology