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Gene therapy: Little RNA keeps cancer awayFelix Cheung AbstractMicroRNA research reveals therapeutic targets for liver cancer
Original article citationJin, H. et al. Identification of miRNomes in human liver and hepatocellular carcinoma reveals miR-199a/b-3p as therapeutic target for hepatocellular carcinoma. Cancer Cell 19, 232–243 (2011).
IntroductionLiver cancer is a leading cause of death in Asia, particularly in China. Many patients infected with hepatitis develop and die from liver cancer, but advances in technology may allow gene therapy to become a suitable method of treatment. A team of Chinese researchers led by Xuetao Cao at Second Military Medical University in Shanghai and Tsinghua University in Beijing1 have used massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS) to analyse the miRNomes of normal human liver, hepatitis liver and cancer liver. The miRNome is the entire set of microRNAs expressed in a tissue or cell type, and MPSS is a sequencing technique for scanning miRNomes. They identified nine microRNAs that accounted for 88.2% of the miRNome in the normal human liver, one of which was the microRNA miR-199a/b-3p. The researchers found that the expression level of miR-199a/b-3p was much lower in cancer liver than in normal human liver. They also analysed the miRNome in patients with liver cancer and further confirmed that low miR-199a/b-3p expression level corresponds to poor survival probability. The researchers tested the therapeutic potential of miR-199a/b-3p by injecting the microRNA into mice with liver cancer. They found that miR-199a/b-3p was capable of repressing liver cancer growth and may therefore represent an alternative treatment to current chemotherapy. The authors of this work are from:
National Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology and Institute of Immunology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China; Institute of Immunology, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; Institute of Immunology, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Third Department of Hepatic Surgery, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Shanghai, China; Department of Organ Transplantation, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Shanghai, China; Liver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Institutes of Biomedical Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; National Lab of Molecular Virology and Genetic Engineering, Beijing, China; Beijing Genomics Institute, Shenzhen, China; School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China; Affiliated Tumor Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China.
Reference- Jin, H. et al. Identification of miRNomes in human liver and hepatocellular carcinoma reveals miR-199a/b-3p as therapeutic target for hepatocellular carcinoma. Cancer Cell 19, 232–243 (2011). | Article | PubMed | [url=http://chemport.cas.org/cgi-bin/sdcgi?APP=ftslink&action=reflink&origin=npg&version=1.0&coi=1:CAS:528C%2BC3MXhvFeksbk%3D&pissn=%7BprintIssn%7D&pyear=2011&md5=b1b1b6fb84d30ec890b9f08bf985cd4d]ChemPort[/url] |
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