In the reverse transcription (RT) step, 60 ng of RNA was used. GAPDH (internal control), readymade primers, and
RT2 SYBR Green PCR kit (Qiagen, Germantown, MD, USA) were used to assess lncRNA serum expression (Duan et al., 2016 (
link)). The RT2 lncRNA PCR assay for MALAT1 was dependent on predesigned primers catalog no: 330701 LPH18065A, Accession no: NR_002819.2. The RT2 lncRNA PCR assay for NEAT1 was dependent on predesigned primers catalog no: 330,701 LPH15809A, Accession no: NR_028272.1. We used GAPDH as an internal housekeeping gene (Adriaens et al., 2016) (Catalog no: 330,701 LPH31725A, Accession no: ENST00000496049.0). Twenty microliter reaction mixtures were used in RT-PCR by mixing 10 µl of master mix, 1 µl readymade assay primer, 2.5 µl of dil. cDNA, and 5.5 µl RNAase-free water. PCR conditions were as follows: 95 °C for 10 min, after that, 45 cycles at 95 °C for 15 s and 60 °C for 60 s. Gene expression relative to internal control (2
−ΔCt) was determined. A melt curve analysis was done to ensure the specificity of the corresponding RT-PCR reactions. Fold change was calculated using 2
−ΔΔCt for relative quantification (Livak and Schmittgen, 2001 (
link)). For the control sample, ΔΔCt equals zero, and 2
0 is equal to one (Shaker et al., 2019a (
link), Shaker et al., 2019b (
link)).
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