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Study the role of socioeconomic factors on the utilization of inpatient and outpatient services among patients referred to urban and rural health centers in Qazvin in 2019-2020
Evaluation of the association between the number and configuration of root canals of mandibular molars in an Iranian subpopulation: A cone‑beam computed tomography study
Underexpression of hsa-mir-449 family and their promoter hypermethylation in infertile men: A case-control study
Background: Post-transcriptional microRNAs (miRNAs) have a impotrant pattern in the
spermatogenesis process.
Objective: Study of the expression and methylation of hsa-miR-449 family in sperm
samples of infertile men.
Materials and Methods: In this case-control study, we recruited 74 infertile
men (with asthenozoospermia, teratozoospermia, asthenoteratozoospermia, and
oligoasthenoteratozoospermia) and 30 control samles. Methylation-specific PCR (MSP)
method was used for methylation evaluation of hsa-miR-449 a, b, c promoter. By Real
time PCR (qRT-PCR) method,we showed downregulation of hsa-miR-449 a, b, c in the
sperm samples of infertile men and compared it to their fertile counterparts.
Results: There was significant underexperssion, in hsa-miR-449-b in
oligoasthenoteratospermic samples (p = 0.0001, F = 2.9). About the methylation
pattern, infertile men showed high frequency of methylation in the promoter of
hsa-miR-449 a, b, c in comparison to controls (60.8% vs 23.3%), the highest amount of
methylation was observed in oligoasthenoteratospermia samples (81.2%).
Conclusion: In this study, low expression and high methylation of hsa-miR-449-b were
observed in infertile men in compared to control samples, which can be one of the
causes of defective spermatogenesis