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Ning Xu1, Yan-Jun Lian1, Xiang Dai1
1Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, Jiangsu, China.
Abstract:
MicroRNAs have been reported to play an important role in diverse biological processes and cancer progression. MicroRNA-7 has been observed to be downregulated in human gastric cancer tissues, but the function of microRNA-7 in gastric cancer has not been well investigated. In this study, we demonstrate that the expression of microRNA-7 was significantly downregulated in 30 pairs of human gastric cancer tissues compared to adjacent normal tissues. Enforced expression of microRNA-7 inhibited cell proliferation and migration abilities of gastric cancer cells, BGC823 and SGC7901. Furthermore, microRNA-7 targeted mTOR in gastric cancer cells. In human clinical specimens, mTOR was higher expressed in gastric cancer tissues compared with adjacent normal tissues. More interestingly, microRNA-7 also sensitizes gastric cancer cells to cisplatin (CDDP) by targeting mTOR. Collectively, our results demonstrate that microRNA-7 is a tumor suppressor microRNA and indicate its potential application for the treatment of human gastric cancer in future.
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