CD8A and temporal arteritis: When assessing the interrelation between pro-inflammatory miRNA expression levels and quantitatively assessed histopathological parameters in TABs from GCA patients, we found a significant positive correlation between the number of infiltrated CD3+, CD4+, CD8+, NFATC+ and CD20+ immune cells and expression levels of miR-142-5p/-132-3p/-142-3p/-212-3p/-511-5p/-155-5p (all ρ > 0.440; p < 0.01) (Figure 2B).