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Upregulation of microRNA-224 is associated with aggressive progression and poor prognosis in human cervical cancer

OBJECTIVE: Accumulating evidence for differential expression of microRNA-224 (miR-224) in various types of human cancer suggests that it may be play a crucial role in tumor biology. The previous microarray detection also shown that miR-224 was one of miRNAs with significant upregulation in cervical...

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Autores principales: Shen, Shu-na, Wang, Ling-feng, Jia, Yong-feng, Hao, Yu-qing, Zhang, Lin, Wang, Hui
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3661379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23631806
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-1596-8-69
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author Shen, Shu-na
Wang, Ling-feng
Jia, Yong-feng
Hao, Yu-qing
Zhang, Lin
Wang, Hui
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Wang, Ling-feng
Jia, Yong-feng
Hao, Yu-qing
Zhang, Lin
Wang, Hui
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description OBJECTIVE: Accumulating evidence for differential expression of microRNA-224 (miR-224) in various types of human cancer suggests that it may be play a crucial role in tumor biology. The previous microarray detection also shown that miR-224 was one of miRNAs with significant upregulation in cervical cancer tissues relative to adjacent normal tissues. However, little is known about the function of miR-224 in human cervical cancer. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical significance of miR-224 expression in cervical cancer. METHODS: MiR-224 expression in 126 pairs of fresh human cervical cancer and adjacent normal tissues was measured by real-time quantitative RT-PCR assay. RESULTS: miR-224 expression was significantly upregulated in cervical cancer tissues when compared with corresponding adjacent normal tissues (P < 0.001). It was also significantly higher in the cancerous tissues of patients with advanced FIGO stage cervical cancer than those with early FIGO stage (P = 0.02). In addition, miR-224 was expressed at significantly higher levels in lymph node metastasis-positive patients than in lymph node metastasis-negative patients (P = 0.008). Moreover, we found that lesser differentiated tumors expressed higher miR-224 (P = 0.03). Finally, there were sufficient evidence to confirm its value in the status of vascular invasion (P = 0.01) and human papillomavirus (HPV) infection (P = 0.02) in cervical cancer. More importantly, Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that cervical cancer patients with high miR-224 expression tend to have shorter overall survival. In multivariate analysis stratified for known prognostic variables, miR-224 was identified as an independent prognostic marker. CONCLUSION: Our data indicated that miR-224 upregulation was associated with aggressive progression and poor prognosis in cervical cancer. MiR-224 was identified for the first time as an independent marker for predicting the clinical outcome of cervical cancer patients. VIRTUAL SLIDES: The virtual slide(s) for this article can be found here: http://www.diagnosticpathology.diagnomx.eu/vs/2170449349527493
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spelling pubmed-36613792013-05-23 Upregulation of microRNA-224 is associated with aggressive progression and poor prognosis in human cervical cancer Shen, Shu-na Wang, Ling-feng Jia, Yong-feng Hao, Yu-qing Zhang, Lin Wang, Hui Diagn Pathol Research OBJECTIVE: Accumulating evidence for differential expression of microRNA-224 (miR-224) in various types of human cancer suggests that it may be play a crucial role in tumor biology. The previous microarray detection also shown that miR-224 was one of miRNAs with significant upregulation in cervical cancer tissues relative to adjacent normal tissues. However, little is known about the function of miR-224 in human cervical cancer. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical significance of miR-224 expression in cervical cancer. METHODS: MiR-224 expression in 126 pairs of fresh human cervical cancer and adjacent normal tissues was measured by real-time quantitative RT-PCR assay. RESULTS: miR-224 expression was significantly upregulated in cervical cancer tissues when compared with corresponding adjacent normal tissues (P < 0.001). It was also significantly higher in the cancerous tissues of patients with advanced FIGO stage cervical cancer than those with early FIGO stage (P = 0.02). In addition, miR-224 was expressed at significantly higher levels in lymph node metastasis-positive patients than in lymph node metastasis-negative patients (P = 0.008). Moreover, we found that lesser differentiated tumors expressed higher miR-224 (P = 0.03). Finally, there were sufficient evidence to confirm its value in the status of vascular invasion (P = 0.01) and human papillomavirus (HPV) infection (P = 0.02) in cervical cancer. More importantly, Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that cervical cancer patients with high miR-224 expression tend to have shorter overall survival. In multivariate analysis stratified for known prognostic variables, miR-224 was identified as an independent prognostic marker. CONCLUSION: Our data indicated that miR-224 upregulation was associated with aggressive progression and poor prognosis in cervical cancer. MiR-224 was identified for the first time as an independent marker for predicting the clinical outcome of cervical cancer patients. VIRTUAL SLIDES: The virtual slide(s) for this article can be found here: http://www.diagnosticpathology.diagnomx.eu/vs/2170449349527493 BioMed Central 2013-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3661379/ /pubmed/23631806 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-1596-8-69 Text en Copyright © 2013 Shen et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Shen, Shu-na
Wang, Ling-feng
Jia, Yong-feng
Hao, Yu-qing
Zhang, Lin
Wang, Hui
Upregulation of microRNA-224 is associated with aggressive progression and poor prognosis in human cervical cancer
title Upregulation of microRNA-224 is associated with aggressive progression and poor prognosis in human cervical cancer
title_full Upregulation of microRNA-224 is associated with aggressive progression and poor prognosis in human cervical cancer
title_fullStr Upregulation of microRNA-224 is associated with aggressive progression and poor prognosis in human cervical cancer
title_full_unstemmed Upregulation of microRNA-224 is associated with aggressive progression and poor prognosis in human cervical cancer
title_short Upregulation of microRNA-224 is associated with aggressive progression and poor prognosis in human cervical cancer
title_sort upregulation of microrna-224 is associated with aggressive progression and poor prognosis in human cervical cancer
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3661379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23631806
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-1596-8-69
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