Circulating miRNAs as new blood-based biomarkers for solid cancers

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RÉDOVÁ Martina ŠÁNA Jiří SLABÝ Ondřej

Year of publication 2013
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Future Oncology
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Central European Institute of Technology

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.2217/FON.12.192
Field Oncology and hematology
Keywords biomarkers; breast cancer; colorectal cancer; lung cancer; miRNA; plasma; prostate cancer; serum
Description miRNAs are short noncoding RNAs that post-transcriptionally regulate gene expression. miRNAs' ability to inhibit translation of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes implies they have an involvement in carcinogenesis. Specific miRNA expression signatures have been identified in a variety of human cancers. More recently, occurrence of miRNAs in the blood serum and plasma of humans has been repeatedly observed. miRNA levels in serum and plasma are more stable, reproducible and consistent among individuals of the same species in comparison with other circulating nucleic acids. Circulating miRNAs have been successfully evaluated in a wide range of solid cancers as promising novel noninvasive biomarkers of early disease onset or relapse. Here we describe the origin of circulating miRNAs, principles of their immense stability and proposed functions, and comprehensively summarize studies focusing on their significance in the most frequently studied cancer types in this regard, including breast, colorectal, lung and prostate cancer.
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