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The degeneration of cartilage endplate in cervical disc is considered as a basis of cervical spondylosis. More...

The degeneration of cartilage endplate in cervical disc is considered as a basis of cervical spondylosis. Owing to the important role of post-transcriptional gene regulation in phenotypes and functions of cells, non-coding ribonucleic acid (ncRNA) molecules contributed to the regulation.Degenerated cervical vertebral endplate cartilage specimens were collected from patients with cervical intervertebral disc degeneration (CIDD) that suffered from cervical spondylosis myelopathy, who had received anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF). CE specimens of healthy subjects were obtained from patients with a cervical fracture who received ACDF at The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University (Nanchang, China) and adopted SBC human ceRNA array V1.0（4×180K）. The results revealed that expressions of369 lncRNAs, 246 mRNAs, 578 circRNAs were different between degenerated cartilage endplate and healthy cartilage endplate. The functions of differentially expressed lncRNAs and co-expressed potential targeting genes were predicted by analyzing Gene ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) biological pathway analysis. Furthermore, we analyzed and find the co-expression and interaction patterns of different RNAs and possible ceRNA mechanism. The present study provided a systematic perspective on the potential function of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) in the degeneration of cartilage endplate in CIDD. Overall design: 6 cartilage endplate of cervical disc samples from 3 patients with cervical spondylosis myelopathy and 3 healthy subjects were obtained from patients with a cervical fracture who received ACDF. there were no replicates, control and/or reference Samples or dye-swaps. Less...