@article{JGO23517,
author = {Arash Azimzadeh-Isfanjani and Reza Safaralizadeh and Mohamadali Hosseinpour-Feizi and Behrouz Shokouhi and Masuomeh Nemati and Seyyed-Yaghoub Moaddab},
title = {Expression of miR-520c in intestinal type gastric adenocarcinoma},
journal = {Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology},
volume = {9},
number = {6},
year = {2018},
keywords = {},
abstract = {Background: MicroRNAs are small non-coding RNAs that participate in post-transcriptional gene regulation in cells thereby playing active role in pathological conditions and have been nominated as new class of biomarkers in disease including cancer. miR-520c has been reported as potential oncogenic micro-RNA in several previous studies. Gastric cancer is the most common cancer of digestive tract and the fourth prevalent cancer worldwide with the intestinal-type gastric adenocarcinoma (IGA) the dominant type of gastric malignancies. This study aimed to explore miR-520c putative role, in IGA and patient’s clinicopathological features.
Methods: Total RNA was first extracted from 42 pairs of IGA tissues and relevant non-tumorous adjacent tissues. cDNA was synthesized from extracted RNAs using specific primers for miR-520c. The level of miR-520c was quantified using SYBER Green Real-Time PCR master mix. The relationship between miR-520c expression and clinicopathological features were examined.
Results: Our study resulted in no differential expression of miR-520c in IGA. There was no significant correlation between miR-520c expression and clinicopathological features including tumor grade, genus and age groups.
Conclusions: To our knowledge, this is the first report about exploring miR-520c expression in IGA tissue samples. Our results do not verify miR-520c previously established oncogenic role in IGA.},
issn = {2219-679X}, url = {https://jgo.amegroups.org/article/view/23517}
}