ArticleChinese medical journal2016
Inhibitory Role of Pentraxin-3 in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
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- High Local and Systemic Expression of Pentraxin-3 in Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- The long pentraxin 3: the invisible loom weaving the warp and weft of tumor destiny.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Single-cell sequencing reveals PTX3 involvement in ovarian cancer metastasis.Journal of ovarian research · 2024Article
- The Role of Pentraxin 3 in Gastrointestinal Cancers.Cancers · 2023Review
- Role of long pentraxin PTX3 in cancer.Clinical and experimental medicine · 2023Review
- The Basic Characteristics of the Pentraxin Family and Their Functions in Tumor Progression.Frontiers in immunology · 2020Review
- UGT2B17 and miR-224 contribute to hormone dependency trends in adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus.Bioscience reports · 2019Article
- The Short Isoform of Nuclear Mitotic Apparatus Protein 1 Functions as a Putative Tumor Suppressor.Chinese medical journal · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundEsophageal cancer is the sixth leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Pentraxin-3 (PTX3) is a member of the PTX superfamily. Here, we investigated the role of PTX3 in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC).
methodsThe effect of PTX3 on ESCC cell proliferation, colony formation, apoptosis, migration, and invasion was investigated using cell viability assays, colony formation assays, flow cytometry, and migration and invasion assays. The effect of PTX3 on the tumorigenicity of ESCC in vivo was investigated with xenograft studies in nude mice.
resultsPTX3 overexpression in ESCC cells reduced cellular proliferation and colony formation (P < 0.05) and increased the rate of apoptosis (P < 0.05). PTX3 expression had no significant effect on the migratory or invasive potential of ESCC cells. In our mouse model of human ESCC, we achieved 100% successful tumor establishment. Compared with the control and empty vector-expressing groups, the PTX3-expressing group formed significantly smaller tumors (P < 0.05).
conclusionsThis study indicates that PTX3 might play an inhibitory role in ESCC.
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