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ArticleBMC complementary and alternative medicine2016

Dioscin inhibits gastric tumor growth through regulating the expression level of lncRNA HOTAIR.

Ting Ma, Rui-Ping Wang, Xi Zou

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Article in BMC complementary and alternative medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ting MaThe Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine of Changzhou Hospital, Changzhou, China.
Rui-Ping WangNanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China. rping_wang@126.com.
Xi ZouNanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China.
Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine · CNHangzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAs a member of non-coding RNAs family, long non-coding RNAs' functions in cancer needs to be further investigated. It has been indicated that the functions of Hox transcript antisense intergenic RNA (lncRNA: HOTAIR) include reprogramming chromatin organization and promoting tumor metastasis such as breast and colorectal tumor. The aim of this study is to investigate the functions of Hox in gastric cancer.

methodsIn the present study, the expression level of HOTAIR was determined by quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR), 20 gastric cancer tissues and 20 normal tissues was included. All clinical data were analyzed retrospectively. The CCK-8 and colony formation assay was used to identify if the knockdown of HOTAIR have an influence on gastric cancer cell lines.

resultsCompared with normal tissues, higher expression level of HOTAIR was found in gastric cancer tissues. Dioscin inhibits proliferation of the three gastric cancer cell lines and decrease HOTAIR expression.

conclusionsThe expression of HOTAIR is up regulated in gastric cancer and gastric cancer cell lines, dioscin inhibits the proliferation of three gastric cancer cell lines and the anti-tumor effect of dioscin may partly depend on the down regulation of HOTAIR.

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AgedAntineoplastic AgentsCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationDiosgeninGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansMiddle AgedRetrospective StudiesRNA, Long NoncodingStomach NeoplasmsAntineoplastic AgentsdioscinDiosgeninHOTAIR long untranslated RNA, humanRNA, Long NoncodingDioscinGastric cancerHOTAIRlncRNA

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PMID27751178
PMCPMC5066294
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