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ArticleJournal of extracellular vesicles2019

Evaluation of circulating small extracellular vesicles derived miRNAs as biomarkers of early colon cancer: a comparison with plasma total miRNAs.

Li Min, Shengtao Zhu, Lei Chen, Xiang Liu, Rui Wei, Libo Zhao, Yuqing Yang, Zheng Zhang, Guanyi Kong, Peng Li and 1 more

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Article in Journal of extracellular vesicles, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 155 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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155citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
12.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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155 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 299 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Li MinDepartment of Gastroenterology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Disease, Beijing Digestive Disease Center, Beijing Key Laboratory for Precancerous Lesion of Digestive Disease, Beijing, P. R. China.ORCID 0000-0001-9595-5536
Shengtao ZhuDepartment of Gastroenterology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Disease, Beijing Digestive Disease Center, Beijing Key Laboratory for Precancerous Lesion of Digestive Disease, Beijing, P. R. China.
Lei ChenDepartment of Gastroenterology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Disease, Beijing Digestive Disease Center, Beijing Key Laboratory for Precancerous Lesion of Digestive Disease, Beijing, P. R. China.
Xiang LiuDepartment of R&D, Echo Biotech Co., Ltd, Beijing, P. R. China.
Rui WeiDepartment of Gastroenterology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Disease, Beijing Digestive Disease Center, Beijing Key Laboratory for Precancerous Lesion of Digestive Disease, Beijing, P. R. China.
Libo ZhaoDepartment of R&D, Echo Biotech Co., Ltd, Beijing, P. R. China.
Yuqing YangDepartment of R&D, Echo Biotech Co., Ltd, Beijing, P. R. China.
Zheng ZhangDepartment of Gastroenterology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Disease, Beijing Digestive Disease Center, Beijing Key Laboratory for Precancerous Lesion of Digestive Disease, Beijing, P. R. China.
Guanyi KongDepartment of R&D, Echo Biotech Co., Ltd, Beijing, P. R. China.
Peng LiDepartment of Gastroenterology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Disease, Beijing Digestive Disease Center, Beijing Key Laboratory for Precancerous Lesion of Digestive Disease, Beijing, P. R. China.
Shutian ZhangDepartment of Gastroenterology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Disease, Beijing Digestive Disease Center, Beijing Key Laboratory for Precancerous Lesion of Digestive Disease, Beijing, P. R. China.
Capital Medical University · CNSinovac Biotech · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early diagnosis of colon cancer (CC) is clinically important, as it can significantly improve patients' survival rate and quality of life. Although the potential role for small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) in early detection of many diseases has been repeatedly mentioned, systematic screening of plasma sEVs derived early CC specific biomarkers has not yet been reported. In this work, plasma sEVs enriched fractions were derived from 15 early-stage (TisN0M0) CC patients and 10 normal controls (NC). RNA sequencing identified a total number of 95 sEVs enriched fraction derived miRNAs with differential expression between CC and NC, most of which (60/95) was in well accordance with tissue results in the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) dataset. Among those miRNAs, we selected let-7b-3p, miR-139-3p, miR-145-3p, and miR-150-3p for further validation in an independent cohort consisting of 134 participants (58 CC and 76 NC). In the validation cohort, the AUC of 4 individual miRNAs ranged from 0.680 to 0.792. A logistic model combining two miRNAs (i.e. let-7b-3p and miR-145-3p) achieved an AUC of 0.901. Adding the 3rd miRNA into this model can further increase the AUC to 0.927. Side by side comparison revealed that sEVs miRNA profile outperformed cell-free plasma miRNA in the diagnosis of early CC. In conclusion, we suggested that circulating sEVs enriched fractions have a distinct miRNA profile in CC patients, and sEVs derived miRNA could be used as a promising biomarker to detect CC at an early stage.

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biomarkerearly colon cancerExtracellular vesiclesmiRNAs

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PMID31448068
PMCPMC6691764
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