ArticleJournal of gastrointestinal oncology2021
Urokinase plasminogen activator predicts poor prognosis in hepatocellular carcinoma.
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- Signalling pathways in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) metastasis and invasion: Molecular mechanisms and therapeutic implications.Biochemistry and biophysics reports · 2026Review
- Thrombotic Risk and Coagulation Imbalance in Cirrhosis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Clinical Implications and Management.Cancers · 2025Review
- Role of Coagulation Factors in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Literature Review.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- circPSD3 is a promising inhibitor of uPA system to inhibit vascular invasion and metastasis in hepatocellular carcinoma.Molecular cancer · 2023Article
- Effect of urokinase-type plasminogen activator combined with clinical stage and Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer stage on the prognosis of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.Journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2023Article
- Recent progress in molecular mechanisms of postoperative recurrence and metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma.World journal of gastroenterology · 2022Review
- Hypermethylation of the Promoter Region of miR-23 Enhances the Metastasis and Proliferation of Multiple Myeloma CellsFrontiers in oncology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundHepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common malignancies worldwide and its prognosis remains dismal. Hence, it is important to identify the diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for HCC. Urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA), an extracellular matrix (ECM)-degrading protease, plays a pivotal role in the invasion and metastasis of HCC.
methodsTo confirm the clinical significance of uPA in HCC, we explored uPA expression in HCC in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. The expression level of uPA was further verified by quantitative reverse transcription polymerized chain reaction (qRT-PCR) in 133 pairs of primary HCC samples. A survival analysis was conducted with the Kaplan-Meier method in the HCC samples and TCGA database.
resultsOur results showed that uPA was overexpressed in HCC and was significantly associated with HCC tumor size (P=0.015), differentiation grade (P=0.028), and absence of tumor encapsulation (P=0.010). Patients with high uPA expression levels had a poor outcome (P=0.026). TCGA database analysis was also consistent with our experimental results.
conclusionsIn conclusion, our findings revealed that uPA was overexpressed in HCC and was related to HCC malignant features including tumor size, differentiation grade and absence of tumor encapsulation. High uPA expression had a shorter survival time. It is a potential prognostic biomarker of HCC.
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