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ArticleInternational journal of clinical and experimental pathology2014

Decreased RGS6 expression is associated with poor prognosis in pancreatic cancer patients.

Nan Jiang, Ruihua Xue, Fangfang Bu, Xin Tong, Jiankun Qiang, Rong Liu

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Article in International journal of clinical and experimental pathology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Nan JiangDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Hospital 28 Fuxing Road, Beijing 100853, China.
Ruihua XueDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Hospital 28 Fuxing Road, Beijing 100853, China.
Fangfang BuDepartment of Cancer Center, Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Hospital 28 Fuxing Road, Beijing 100853, China.
Xin TongDepartment of Cancer Center, Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Hospital 28 Fuxing Road, Beijing 100853, China.
Jiankun QiangDepartment of Cancer Center, Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Hospital 28 Fuxing Road, Beijing 100853, China.
Rong LiuDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Hospital 28 Fuxing Road, Beijing 100853, China.
Chinese PLA General Hospital · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regulator of G-protein signaling 6 (RGS6), a member of a family of RGS proteins, has been reported to involve in multiple processes during tumor development. However, its role in pancreatic cancer has not been studied yet. In this study, we aimed to investigate the expression of RGS6 in pancreatic cancer and its role in predicting outcomes of patients with pancreatic cancer. We first measured the expression of RGS6 mRNA in 20 cases of tumor tissues and matched adjacent non-tumorous tissues by quantitative real-time PCR and examined RGS6 protein by immunohistochemistry in tissue microarrays containing 90 tumor and 90 paired adjacent non-tumor tissues. Decreased RGS6 mRNA detected in primary tumor, compared with their non-tumor counterparts. In addition, decreased RGS6 protein expression was associated with tumor differentiation (P = 0.027), pT classification (P = 0.034), smoking status (P = 0.041) and a poor survival (P = 0.007). Cox proportional hazards regression modeling analysis revealed that lymph node metastasis (P = 0.001; hazard ratio, 2.347, 95% CI, 1.387-3.972), tumor differentiation (P = 0.015; hazard ratio, 0.505, 95% CI, 0.291-0.876) and RGS6 expression (P = 0.048; hazard ratio, 0.567, 95% CI, 0.324-0.994) were three independent prognostic factors. Taken together, these date demonstrate that RGS6 decreases in tumor tissue and may serve as a novel biomarker for outcomes in pancreatic cancer patients and be a potential therapeutic target potential therapeutic target.

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AdenocarcinomaAgedBiomarkers, TumorFemaleHumansImmunohistochemistryKaplan-Meier EstimateMaleMiddle AgedPancreatic NeoplasmsPrognosisProportional Hazards ModelsReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRGS ProteinsTissue Array AnalysisBiomarkers, TumorRGS6 protein, humanRGS Proteinsclinical pathologypancreatic neoplasmsprognosisRGS protein

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PMID25120791
PMCPMC4129026
OpenAlexW1689161417

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