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Previous studies have revealed that miRNAs are dysregulated in intestinal biopsies of patients affected by coeliac disease (CD). Combined bioinformatics analyses of miRNA expression profiles and mRNA target genes as classified by Gene Ontology, are powerful tools to investigate the functional role of miRNAs in coeliac disease. However, little is still known about the function of circulating miRNAs, their expression level compared to tissue miRNAs, and whether the mechanisms of post-transcriptional regulation are the same of tissue miRNAs. In any case, if we assume that a cell-cell communication process has to occur, and that circulating miRNAs are delivered to recipient cells, we can derive useful information by performing target predictions. Interestingly, all of the mRNA targets of dysregulated miRNAs reported in the literature (i.e., miR-31-5p, miR-192, miR-194, miR-449a and miR-638) belong to several important biological processes, such as Wnt signaling, cell proliferation and differentiation, and adherens junction pathways. Although we think that these predictions have to be necessarily confirmed by \u201cwet-lab\u201d data, the miRNAs dysregulated during the development of CD could be potentially involved in the pathogenesis of coeliac disease and their correlation with circulating miRNAs offers new possibilities to use them as disease biomarkers.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijms18091907","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,9,6]],"date-time":"2017-09-06T11:23:34Z","timestamp":1504697014000},"page":"1907","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":33,"title":["Intestinal and Circulating MicroRNAs in Coeliac Disease"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Cristina","family":"Felli","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Laboratories, Bambino Ges\u00f9 Children\u2019s Hospital-IRCCS, V.le di San Paolo 15, 00146 Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Antonella","family":"Baldassarre","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Laboratories, Bambino Ges\u00f9 Children\u2019s Hospital-IRCCS, V.le di San Paolo 15, 00146 Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Andrea","family":"Masotti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Laboratories, Bambino Ges\u00f9 Children\u2019s Hospital-IRCCS, V.le di San Paolo 15, 00146 Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,9,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"8","DOI":"10.1038\/mi.2008.75","article-title":"Celiac disease: From oral tolerance to intestinal inflammation, autoimmunity and lymphomagenesis","volume":"2","author":"Meresse","year":"2009","journal-title":"Mucosal Immunol."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"248","DOI":"10.1016\/j.yexcr.2013.11.008","article-title":"Two wheat decapeptides prevent gliadin-dependent maturation of human dendritic cells","volume":"321","author":"Giordani","year":"2014","journal-title":"Exp. 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