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1The Third Clinical College of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China. one-surgenon@163.com.
Objective:
To investigate the effects of HOXD cluster antisense RNA 1 (HOXD-AS1) in cervical cancer and its underlying mechanism.
Patients And Methods:
Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) was used to examine the expression of HOXD-AS1 in human cervical cancer tissues. x2-test was used for analyzing the association of HOXD-AS1 expression and clinical parameters. Cell viability, colony formation capacity, and phosphorylation of extracellular regulated protein kinases 1/2 (ERK1/2) in treated HeLa and CaSki cells were detected by 3-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyl-2-H-tetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay, colony formation assay, and Western blot analysis, respectively.
Results:
The results indicated that HOXD-AS1 was upregulated in cervical cancer cells significantly. Meanwhile, HOXD-AS1 expression was involved in tumor-node-metastasis stages, lymphovascular invasion, lymph node metastasis, as well as recurrence. HOXD-AS1 knockdown remarkably suppressed cervical cancer cell proliferation, colony formation capacity, and the Ras/ERK signaling pathway in vitro. Furthermore, xenograft assays confirmed the results in vivo.
Conclusions:
Our data elucidate that silencing HOXD-AS1 remarkably suppresses cell growth by inactivating the Ras/ERK pathway in cervical cancer, providing a more detailed understanding of cervical cancer pathogenesis and providing a possible theoretical foundation for long non-coding RNA for the diagnosis and therapy for cervical cancer.
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