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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2021

The Role and Clinical Potentials of Circular RNAs in Prostate Cancer.

Mohammad Taheri, Sajad Najafi, Abbas Basiri, Bashdar Mahmud Hussen, Aria Baniahmad, Elena Jamali, Soudeh Ghafouri-Fard

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Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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  3. Circular RNA in Exosomes and Its Clinical Significance.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025
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  6. Brain-Derived Exosomal CircRNAs in Plasma Serve as Diagnostic Biomarkers for Acute Ischemic Stroke.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2024
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  10. Epigenetic and Immunological Features of Bladder Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  14. Role of circular RNAs in retinoblastoma.Functional & integrative genomics · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Mohammad TaheriSkull Base Research Center, Loghman Hakim Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Sajad NajafiStudent Research Committee, Department of Medical Biotechnology, School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Abbas BasiriUrology and Nephrology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Bashdar Mahmud HussenDepartment of Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, Hawler Medical University, Erbil, Iraq.
Aria BaniahmadInstitute of Human Genetics, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
Elena JamaliDepartment of Pathology, Loghman Hakim Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Soudeh Ghafouri-FardDepartment of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences · IRHawler Medical University · IQJena University Hospital · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Globally, prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in men globally. Early diagnosis may help in promoting survival in the affected patients. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a novel class of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) which have been found to show extensive dysregulation in a handful of human diseases including cancers. Progressions in RNA identification techniques have provided a vast number of circRNAs exhibiting either up-regulation or down-regulation in PCa tissues compared to normal adjacent tissues. The mechanism of action is not clear for most of dysregulated circRNAs. Among them, function of a number of newly identified dysregulated circRNAs have been assessed in PCa cells. Increase in cell proliferation, migration, invasion, and metastasis have been reported for up-regulated circRNAs which suggest their role as oncogenes. On the other hand, down-regulated circRNAs have shown tumor suppressing actions in experimental studies. Furthermore, in a majority of studies, circRNAs have been found to sponge microRNAs (miRNAs), negatively regulating expression or activity of the downstream miRNAs. Additionally, they have been identified in interaction with regulatory proteins. This axis consequently regulates a signaling pathway, a tumor suppressor, or an oncogene. Easy, quick, and reliable detection of circRNAs in human body fluids also suggests their potentials as biomarker candidates for diagnosis and prediction of prognosis in PCa patients. In this review, we have discussed the role and potentials of a number of dysregulated circRNAs in PCa.

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biomarkercircular RNAsdiagnosisprognosisprostate cancer

Identifiers

PMID34804984
PMCPMC8604184
OpenAlexW3212624515

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