Although Onyx allows moderate obliteration rates, combined management, such as adjunctive embolization with microsurgery or radiosurgery, may be effective for selected large AVMs.
MiR-140-5p is low expression and acts as a tumor suppressor in various types of human cancers. However, the potential role of miR-140-5p in retinoblastoma (RB) remains unknown. In the present study, we performed the miRNA microarray analysis to investigate whether miRNAs expression are associated with RB tumorigenesis in RB tissues. We found that a large set of miRNAs were ectopic expressions and miR-140-5p is most significantly down-regulated in human RB tissues compared with normal retinas. In addition, low miR-140-5p expression is associated with clinicopathological features (differentiation, invasion, T classification, N classification, cTNM stage, and largest tumor base) and poor survival in RB patients. Furthermore, our results showed that overexpression of miR-140-5p suppresses proliferation and induces apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in RB cell. Meanwhile, we confirmed that c-Met is the functional target of miR-140-5p in RB cell, and miR-140-5p expression is negatively correlated with c-Met in RB tissues. We also found that inhibition of c-Met also suppresses proliferation and induces apoptosis and cell cycle arrest in RB cell. Interestingly, c-Met can rescue the suppressive effects of miR-140-5p on RB cell growth and cell cycle arrest. More importantly, our findings indicated that miR-140-5p may inhibit cell growth via blocking c-Met/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway. Collectively, these results suggested that miR-140-5p might be a potential biomarker and target in the diagnosis and treatment of RB.
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report a general fabrication method for water-soluble pillar[n]arene nanosponges (NS) by the use of a supra-amphiphilic
template. For the first time, a supra-amphiphilic template is used
to conveniently control the size of host molecule-based NS. The intrinsic
cavity of water-soluble pillar[6]arene could stably encapsulate dyes
(acridine orange and indocyanine green) and antitumor drugs (doxorubicin
hydrochloride and mitoxantrone) by host–guest interaction.
NS could deliver antitumor drugs to cancer cells. Multidrug resistance
(MDR) of cancer cells (MCF-7/ADR) is overcome by the use of NS with
a ninefold reduction in the IC50 value compared to that
of the free drug (3.4 μM vs 34.4 μM). Mechanistic studies
show that stable encapsulation of the antitumor drug is the reason
to overcome MDR.
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