Accepted Article Expression of Inflammasome complex mRNA and its targeted miRNA in Type II Diabetes mellitus: a possible predictor for the severity of Diabetic Nephropathy Running Title: Inflammasome complex and miRNA in DN Chandra K. BHATTACHARJEE. MSc 1 , Suman K PAINE. PhD 1 , Jagadish MAHANTA. MD 1 , Sawjib BORPHUKAN. DM 2 , and Prasanta K BORAH*. MD 1 1 Indian Council of Medical Research-Regional Medical Research Centre North Easter Region, India 2 Assam Medical College and Hospital, Dibrugarh, India Author for Correspondence Prasanta K. Borah, MD Scientist-E Indian Council of Medical Research-Regional Medical Research Centre, North Easter Region, Dibrugarh-786001 Assam, India Email: prasant47@yahoo.com Affiliation and email id of co-authors Co-author Affiliation Email ID Chandra K. BHATTACHARJEE. MSc. Indian Council of Medical Research-Regional Medical Research Centre North Easter Region, India chandrabhattacharya111@gmail.com This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/jdb.12845