Abstract:Objective To analyze the relationship between long-chain non-coding RNA (lncRNA) plasmacytoma variant translocation 1 (PVT1) and inflammatory factors and sensitivity to hormone therapy in children with bronchial asthma. Methods A prospective controlled study was conducted, with 60 bronchial asthma children treated in our hospital from January to December 2019 being selected and divided into hormone-sensitive group (30 cases) and hormone-resistant group (30 cases). The tracheal smooth muscle cells collected from all the children were primarily cultured. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to detect the expression level of lncRNA PVT1, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to detect the expression of inflammatory factors in primarily cultured cells before and after silencing lncRNA PVT1 via siRNA. Results The expression levels of lncRNA PVT1 in serum and primarily cultured cells of hormone-resistant group were higher than those of hormone-sensitive group (P < 0.05). Serum levels of IL-1β, IL-6, IL-10 and TNF-α in the hormone-resistant group were higher than those in the hormone-sensitive group (P < 0.05). The differences in the expression levels of IL-1β, IL-6, IL-10 and TNF-α in the primarily cultured cells before and after silencing of lncRNA PVT1 in the hormone-resistant group were greater than those in the hormone-sensitive group (P < 0.05). After multiple stepwise regression analysis, lncRNA PVT1, IL-10, and TNF-α levels were found to be the influencing factors of the sensitivity to hormone therapy in children with bronchial asthma (P < 0.05). The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis showed that the sensitivity of serum lncRNA PVT1, IL-10 and TNF-α to predict resistance to hormone therapy in children with bronchial asthma was 91.25%, specificity was 88.74%, and area under the ROC curve (AUC) was 0.955, which was significantly higher than the AUC of a single index (P < 0.05). Conclusions The lncRNA PVT1 and inflammatory factors are both associated with the sensitivity to hormone therapy in children with bronchial asthma, and the combined prediction of hormone resistance in children is effective, which may be related to the fact that silencing lncRNA PVT1 can inhibit inflammatory response and therefore improve the sensitivity to hormone therapy.