MicroRNA and Bone Tumor: To Up Date

Title:MicroRNA and Bone Tumor: To Up Date

Volume: 9 Issue: 3

Author(s): Huichao Wang, Ruiqiang Zhang, Yudong Jia, Xiaodong Zhang, Yingjie Zhu, Ying Zhang, Xiantao Chen, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Litao Cai, Hanzheng Zhao, Wuyin Li and Youwen Liu

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Keywords: Bone tumor, Ewing sarcoma, microRNA, osteosarcoma.

Abstract: In the last several years, bone tumor related microRNA research showed an explosive growth. MicroRNA was found to have a high or low expression level in bone tumor tissue and some microRNAs proved to be the biomarker for poor prognosis. The majority of research was focused on osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma. Many tumor associated molecules, including oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes, were found to be the direct targets for microRNA, and enhanced microRNA may play the regulatory role in tumor development. In the bone tumor cell lines, overexpression of microRNA could promote or inhibit the tumor growth, migration, invasion, and metastasis, especially for osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma. Many key molecules proved important for tumor genesis were found directly binding to the related microRNA, and whose expression level was down regulated. This may provide a novel therapeutic target for bone tumor. Large scale clinical samples detection and high through-put microarray assay have demonstrated microRNA might be applied to predict and diagnose the bone tumor. MicroRNA in serum was also proved significant as a biomarker for bone tumor.

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Wang Huichao, Zhang Ruiqiang, Jia Yudong, Zhang Xiaodong, Zhu Yingjie, Zhang Ying, Chen Xiantao, Zhang Xiaoqiang, Cai Litao, Zhao Hanzheng, Li Wuyin and Liu Youwen, MicroRNA and Bone Tumor: To Up Date, Current Signal Transduction Therapy 2014; 9 (3) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1574362410666150116235118