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Provedor de dados: | Genetics and Molecular Biology
País: | Brazil
Título: | Expression of miR-148b-3p is correlated with overexpression of biomarkers in prostate cancer
Autores: | Arámbula-Meraz,Eliakym; Bergez-Hernández,Fernando; Leal-León,Emir; Romo-Martínez,Enrique; Picos-Cárdenas,Verónica; Luque-Ortega,Fred; Romero-Quintana,Jose; Alvarez-Arrazola,Marco; García-Magallanes,Noemí.
Data: | 2020-01-01
Ano: | 2020
Palavras-chave: | Gene expression; Biomarker; MiRNAs; Correlation; Prostate cancer.
Resumo: | Abstract Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the leading causes of death among men. Genes such as PCA3, PSA, and Fra-1 are suggested to serve as potential tools for the detection of PCa, as they are deregulated during this pathology. A similar event occurs with small non-coding RNAs, called miRNAs, specifically miR-195-5p, miR-133a-3p, and miR-148b-3p, which were analyzed in a Chinese population and suggested to be possible candidates for PCa diagnosis. We evaluated the expression levels of three miRNAs and three genes in tissue samples of PCa and benign prostate disease, such as benign prostatic hyperplasia, or prostatitis, in order to determine their potential as candidates for PCa detection. Our results showed a statistically significant overexpression of 279-fold increase in PSA levels and a 1,012-fold increase in PCA3 levels in PCa patients compared to benign prostate disease patients (p = 0.001 and p = 0.002, respectively). We observed a positive correlation between the expression of miR-148b-3p and the expression of PSA and PCA3 genes, two established biomarkers in PCa. The expression of miR-148b-3p was not related to clinical characteristics, such as age and weight, as observed for the other miRNAs analyzed, suggesting its potential as a biomarker for detection of this pathology.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572020000100112
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Genética
Relação: | 10.1590/1678-4685-gmb-2018-0330
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Genetics and Molecular Biology  v.43 n.1 2020
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess