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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2015

microRNA-34a as a Therapeutic Agent against Human Cancer.

Yoshimasa Saito, Toshiaki Nakaoka, Hidetsugu Saito

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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44citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 73 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. BET Bromodomain Inhibition Reverses CDK4/6 Inhibitor Resistance in Estrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer via Induction of miR-34a-5p.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2025
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  10. Regulation of miRNAs Expression by Mutant p53 Gain of Function in Cancer.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021
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  20. miR-34a in Neurophysiology and Neuropathology.Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yoshimasa SaitoDivision of Pharmacotherapeutics, Keio University Faculty of Pharmacy, 1-5-30 Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8512, Japan. saito-ys@pha.keio.ac.jp.
Toshiaki NakaokaDivision of Pharmacotherapeutics, Keio University Faculty of Pharmacy, 1-5-30 Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8512, Japan. toshiakinakaoka1116@gmail.com.
Hidetsugu SaitoDivision of Pharmacotherapeutics, Keio University Faculty of Pharmacy, 1-5-30 Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8512, Japan. saito-hd@pha.keio.ac.jp.
Keio University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

microRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that down-regulate expression of various target genes. Cancer-related miRNAs are aberrantly expressed and act as tumor suppressors or oncogenes during carcinogenesis. We and other researchers have demonstrated that important tumor suppressor miRNAs are silenced by epigenetic alterations, resulting in the activation of target oncogenes in cancer cells. miR-34a was identified as a target of p53 and induces a G1 cell cycle arrest, senescence and apoptosis in response to DNA damage. miR-34a is an important tumor suppressor whose expression is epigenetically silenced in various human cancers. Enforced expression of miR-34a induces cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, senescence, and suppression of epithelial-mesenchymal transition and inhibits cell proliferation of cancer stem cells. Epigenetic therapy with chromatin-modifying drugs such as inhibitors of DNA methylation and histone deacetylase has shown clinical promise for the treatment of malignancies. Restoring of miR-34a expression by epigenetic therapy and/or delivery of miR-34a mimics may be a promising therapeutic strategy against human cancer.

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cancercancer stem cellDNA methylationmicroRNAmiR-34a

Identifiers

PMID26580663
PMCPMC4663478
OpenAlexW2175027995

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