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The role of circulating and exosomal miRNAs as biomarkers of drug-resistant epilepsy

Epilepsy is estimated to affect about 65 million individuals worldwide, with up to 30 percent of drug-resistant patients who do not have remission despite appropriate therapy with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). Therefore, it is important to distinguish drug-resistant epilepsy early in the course of disease to start a specific therapeutical approach as soon as possible. Recently circulating miRNAs have been proposed as promising biomarkers for different neurodegenerative disorders, including epilepsy. MiRNAs are a class of small non-coding RNA that regulate gene expression at a post-transcriptional level. The regulatory mechanisms controlling translation of mRNA transcripts represents to date a…