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Trial reportThe Journal of experimental medicine2013

miR-612 suppresses the invasive-metastatic cascade in hepatocellular carcinoma.

Zhong-Hua Tao, Jin-Liang Wan, Ling-Yao Zeng, Lu Xie, Hui-Chuan Sun, Lun-Xiu Qin, Lu Wang, Jian Zhou, Zheng-Gang Ren, Yi-Xue Li and 2 more

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Trial report in The Journal of experimental medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 83 papers.

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83citing papers in PubMed
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

83 citing papers in PubMed, 118 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Zhong-Hua TaoLiver Cancer Institute and Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory of Carcinogenesis and Cancer Invasion, Ministry of Education, Shanghai 200032, China.
Jin-Liang Wan
Ling-Yao Zeng
Lu Xie
Hui-Chuan Sun
Lun-Xiu Qin
Lu Wang
Jian Zhou
Zheng-Gang Ren
Yi-Xue Li
Jia Fan
Wei-Zhong Wu
Zhongshan Hospital · CNShanghai Center For Bioinformation Technology · CNFudan University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play a critical role in tumor metastasis. In this study, we identified a set of 32 miRNAs involved in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) metastasis. Among them, miR-612 was shown for the first time to have inhibitory effects on HCC proliferation, migration, invasion, and metastasis. AKT2 was verified to be one of the direct targets of miR-612, through which the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and metastasis were inhibited. The level of miR-612 in HCC patients was inversely associated with tumor size, stage, EMT, and metastasis. Of particular importance, miR-612 is involved in both the initial and final steps of the metastatic cascade, by suppressing local invasion and distant colonization. The pleiotropic roles of miR-612 in the HCC metastatic cascade suggest that it could be an effective target for both early and advanced HCC.

Indexed as

Cell ProliferationEpithelial-Mesenchymal TransitionAnimalsCarcinoma, HepatocellularFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHep G2 CellsHumansLiver NeoplasmsMaleMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMice, NudeMicroRNAsNeoplasm InvasivenessNeoplasm MetastasisAKT2 protein, humanMicroRNAsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-aktRNA, Neoplasm

Identifiers

PMID23478189
PMCPMC3620363
OpenAlexW2162312499

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