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Exosomal microRNA-141 is upregulated in the serum of prostate cancer patients

Overview of attention for article published in OncoTargets and therapy, December 2015
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Title
Exosomal microRNA-141 is upregulated in the serum of prostate cancer patients
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OncoTargets and therapy, December 2015
DOI 10.2147/ott.s95565
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Zhuo Li, Yue-Yun Ma, Juan Wang, Xian-Fei Zeng, Rui Li, Wei Kang, Xiao-Ke Hao

Abstract

Novel biomarkers for the diagnosis of prostate cancer (PCa) are urgently required. Increasing evidence suggests that exosomal microRNAs (miRNAs or miRs) in serum may be potential noninvasive biomarkers for certain diseases. The objective of the present study was to investigate and assess whether exosomal miR-141 is an effective biomarker for human PCa. In the present study, exosomes were isolated from the serum of patients with PCa, patients with benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH), and healthy volunteers. The total RNA was extracted from the exosomes and the level of miR-141 was analyzed by quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. The expression levels of miR-141 were compared between the whole serum and the serum exosomes of the three groups. Subsequently, the relevance of the exosomal expression of miR-141 to the clinicopathological factors in PCa was investigated. The expression of miR-141 was higher in exosomes compared with whole serum (control group, P=0.0003; BPH group, P=0.0016; PCa group, P<0.0001). The level of serum exosomal miR-141 was significantly higher in the patients with PCa compared with the patients with BPH and the healthy controls (3.85-fold, P=0.0007 and 4.06-fold, P=0.0005, respectively). In addition, the expression levels were significantly higher in metastatic PCa compared with localized PCa (P<0.0001). Receiver-operating characteristic curve revealed that the serum exosomal miR-141 yielded an area under the curve of 0.8694, with 80% sensitivity and 87.1% specificity in discriminating patients with metastatic PCa from the patients with localized PCa. Serum exosomes may serve as a more suitable material compared with the whole serum for measuring circulating miR-141 levels in patients with PCa. Exosomal miR-141 is upregulated in the serum from patients with PCa compared with patients with BPH or the healthy volunteers, and it may be a useful potential biomarker for the diagnosis of metastatic PCa.

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Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Russia 1 <1%
Unknown 126 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 20%
Student > Master 20 16%
Student > Bachelor 19 15%
Researcher 14 11%
Student > Postgraduate 10 8%
Other 12 9%
Unknown 27 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 44 34%
Medicine and Dentistry 22 17%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 10%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 2%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 2%
Other 7 5%
Unknown 36 28%
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