TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen) or mirVana PARIS System (Ambion, Texas, USA) were respectively employed to isolate total or serum RNA. Subsequently, RNA quantitation and quality determination were performed on the Nanodrop 2000 spectrophotometer platform (Thermo Fisher Scientific, United States). Thereafter, TaqMan miRNA (miR-375 and U6 snRNA) probes (Applied Biosystems, USA) were utilized to perform RT-qPCR according to the manufacturer’s protocol (26 (link)) for mature microRNAs or mRNA using the SYBR Green (Applied Biosystems) method. RT-qPCR was carried out on the 7900 detection system (Applied Biosystems), with U6 small nuclear RNA (snRNA) and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) serving as normalization standards for miRNA and mRNA, respectively. A comparative threshold cycle method was used and values were computed using the 2−ΔΔCt equation. Each reaction in this experiment was run three separate times. The qRT-PCR primer sequences are listed in Table 1.