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ArticleOncology letters2018

Association of IRS2 overexpression with disease progression in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.

Huey-Ling You, Ting-Ting Liu, Shao-Wen Weng, Chang-Han Chen, Yu-Ching Wei, Hock-Liew Eng, Wan-Ting Huang

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Article in Oncology letters, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Huey-Ling YouDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung 83301, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Ting-Ting LiuDepartment of Pathology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung 83301, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Shao-Wen WengDepartment of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung 83301, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Chang-Han ChenThe Institute for Translational Research in Biomedicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung 83301, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Yu-Ching WeiDepartment of Pathology, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung 80708, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Hock-Liew EngDepartment of Pathology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung 83301, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Wan-Ting HuangDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung 83301, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital · TWKaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital · TW

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Insulin receptor substrate 2 (IRS2) is a candidate driver oncogene frequently amplified in cancer and is positively associated with IRS2 expression. The overexpression of IRS2 has been suggested to promote tumor metastasis. However, its function in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA) has not been investigated extensively. The present study examined 86 cases of iCCA to analyze IRS2 expression and its correlation with clinicopathological characteristics using immunohistochemical assays. Three stable cell lines overexpressing IRS2 were established. The mobility potential of cells was compared in the basal condition and following manipulation using cell migration and invasion assays. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT)-associated proteins were assessed by western blotting. IRS2 was overexpressed in 29 iCCA cases (33.7%) and was significantly more frequent in cases with large tumor size (P=0.033), classified as an advanced stage by the American Joint Committee on Cancer (P=0.046). In comparison with the control cells, the three IRS2-overexpressing iCCA cell lines exhibited a statistically significant increase in mobility potential. Expression analysis of EMT markers demonstrated decreased epithelial marker levels and increased mesenchymal marker levels in IRS2-overexpressing cells compared with their corresponding control cells. The results of the present study indicate that IRS2 overexpression is characterized by a large tumor size and advanced tumor stage in iCCA, and that it may increase tumor mobility potential by regulating EMT pathways. Therefore, it is a valuable predictive indicator of metastasis and may provide a novel direction for targeted therapy in iCCA.

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disease-free survivaldisease progressionepithelial-mesenchymal transitionintrahepatic cholangiocarcinomaIRS2

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PMID30250623
PMCPMC6144925
OpenAlexW2886260263

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