Publications by authors named "Huichan He"

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  • Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a complex disease, and this study explores cell division cycle-associated 3 (CDCA3) as a potential biomarker for predicting outcomes and responses to immunotherapy in RCC patients.
  • By analyzing multi-omics data from The Cancer Genome Atlas, researchers found that higher CDCA3 expression was linked to worse survival rates and decreased effectiveness of PD-1 blockade therapies.
  • Results indicate that CDCA3 could serve as an independent prognostic factor and a target for future treatment strategies in RCC, highlighting its importance in evaluating tumor behavior and therapy responses.
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Introduction: N1-methyladenosine (m1A) RNA methylation is an emerging epigenetic modification. Its potential role in lipid metabolism and prognosis of prostate cancer (PCa) remains unexplored.

Objectives: This study investigated the impact of m1A on lipid metabolism and PCa prognosis.

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Prostate cancer (PCa) is an androgen-dependent disease, with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) being an advanced stage that no longer responds to androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). Mounting evidence suggests that glucocorticoid receptors (GR) confer resistance to ADT in CRPC patients by bypassing androgen receptor (AR) blockade. GR, as a novel therapeutic target in CRPC, has attracted substantial attention worldwide.

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Given the heterogeneity of tumors, there is an urgent need for accurate prognostic parameters in prostate cancer (PCa) patients. Lipid metabolism (LM) reprogramming and oxidative stress (OS) play a vital role in the progression of PCa. In this work, we identified five LM-OS-related genes (including ACOX2, PPRAGC1A, PTGS1, PTGS2, and HAO1) associated with the biochemical recurrence (BCR) of PCa.

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  • The study investigates how certain conditions like pregnancy, transplantation, and blood transfusions trigger the production of platelet antibodies, particularly in male patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who have no such histories.
  • It reveals that the use of antitumor medications may be an independent risk factor for positive platelet antibody results, suggesting a link between cancer treatment and immune responses.
  • The research indicates that monitoring platelet antibody levels in HCC patients could be crucial in preventing complications like anemia and bleeding related to their treatment, especially when they exhibit a decrease in blood cell counts.
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Background: Establishment of a reliable prognostic model and identification of novel biomarkers are urgently needed to develop precise therapy strategies for clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). Stress response stated T cells (Tstr) are a new T-cell subtype, which are related to poor disease stage and immunotherapy response in various cancers.

Methods: 10 machine-learning algorithms and their combinations were applied in this work.

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The therapeutic efficacy of metformin in prostate cancer (PCa) appears uncertain based on various clinical trials. Metformin treatment failure may be attributed to the high frequency of transcriptional dysregulation, which leads to drug resistance. However, the underlying mechanism is still unclear.

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Background: Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is a malignant disease containing tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are present in the tumor microenvironment and are strongly associated with cancer development. Nevertheless, the role of ROS-related genes in ccRCC remains unclear.

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Background: Enzalutamide, as a second-generation endocrine therapy drug for prostate cancer (PCa), is prominent representative among the synthetic androgen receptor antagonists. Currently, there is lack of enzalutamide-induced signature (ENZ-sig) for predicting progression and relapse-free survival (RFS) in PCa.

Methods: Enzalutamide-induced candidate markers were derived from single-cell RNA sequencing analysis integrating three enzalutamide-stimulated models (0-, 48-, and 168-h enzalutamide stimulation).

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  • An interested reader pointed out that two data panels in a research paper were improperly overlapped, suggesting they came from the same source when they should represent different experiments.
  • Upon reviewing their original data, the authors confirmed that the figure was incorrectly assembled.
  • They issued a corrigendum with a revised version of the figure but stated that this change does not affect the overall conclusions of their paper and apologized for any inconvenience caused.
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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection may affect all tissues and organs of the body. Little is known about the impact of this entity on its systematic incorporation in patients with gastric cancer (GC). This study enrolled a total of 113 GC patients with EBV infection (EBVaGC) and 167 GC patients without EBV infection (EBVnGC).

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Background: The incidence of bladder cancer (BCa) in male is approximately three to four times higher than in female, but the oncological outcomes in female patients with BCa are significantly worse than in male patients. Although many biomarkers have been identified in recent decades to predict the prognosis of BCa patients, few of them are able to distinguish the prognosis of BCa patients with gender difference. Aromatase encoded by the CYP19A1 gene catalyzes the conversion of androgens to estrogens.

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Objective: To compare the expression levels of Defective In Cullin Neddylation 1 Domain Containing 1 oncogene in prostate cancer tissues and normal prostate tissues, to explore its effect on cancerous cells, and to investigate its underlying mechanisms on such cells in vitro.

Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted at Guangdong Key Laboratory of Clinical Molecular Medicine and Diagnostics from Jan 03,2017 to Nov 05,2018, and comprised prostate tissue samples on which immunohistochemistry was used to detect the expression of Defective In Cullin Neddylation 1 Domain Containing 1 oncogene. Short hairpin ribonucleic acid expression plasmid targeting the oncogene was constructed and transferred into prostate cance cell line DU145.

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Background: Few reports from China provide confirmed evidence of the effectiveness of the larynx preservation strategy compared with surgery on the treatment of laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancers. This study assessed the clinical outcomes of patients with locally advanced laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancers treated with larynx preservation and determined the optimal larynx preservation procedure.

Methods: Data of 1,494 patients treated with total laryngectomy or larynx preservation between 2006 and 2014 were retrieved from the database of Sun-Yat Sen University Cancer Center in Guangzhou, China, and 366 eligible patients were selected for final analysis.

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There is a compelling need to identify novel genetic variants for papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) susceptibility. The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data showed associations between SPP1 and SPARC mRNA overexpression and aggressive behaviors of PTC, which prompted us to assess potential associations between genetic variants in these genes and PTC risk. Three highly linked SPARC loci (rs1054204, rs3210714, and rs3549) contributed to reduced PTC risk under a codominant model (odds ratio [OR], 0.

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Background And Aim: Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are potential biomarkers for cancer risk, but their association with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is unclear. We examined the association of lncRNA-related SNPs with HCC susceptibility and explored the optimal genetic models for SNPs.

Methods: Five candidate SNPs linked with digestive tumors were first genotyped in a screening population of 700 HCC and 2800 control cases.

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Lactate dehydrogenase isozyme (LDH) is a tetramer constituted of two isoforms, LDHA and LDHB, the expression of which is associated with cell metabolism and cancer progression. Our previous study reveals that CC-chemokine ligand-18 (CCL18) is involved in progression of prostate cancer (PCa).This study aims to investigate how CCL18 regulates LDH isoform expression, and therefore, contributes to PCa progression.

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Diagnosis of the presence of tumors and subsequent prognosis based on tumor microenvironment becomes more clinically practical because tumor-adjacent tissues are easy to collect and they are more genetically homogeneous. The purpose of this study was to identify new prognostic markers in prostate stroma that are near the tumor. We have demonstrated the prognostic features of FGFR1, FRS2, S6K1, LDHB, MYPT1, and P-LDHA in prostate tumors using tissue microarrays (TMAs) which consist of 241 patient samples from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).

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Immunotherapy has made great breakthroughs in the field of cancer. However, the immunotherapeutic effect of prostate cancer is unsatisfactory. We found that the expression of TRIB1 was significantly correlated with the infiltration of CD163+ macrophages in prostate cancer.

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Background: Immediate early response gene 3 (IER3) is a stress-inducible gene, which exerts diverse effects in regulating cell apoptosis and cell cycle. Growing evidence shows that IER3 functions either as an oncogene or a tumor suppressor in various human cancers with a cancer type-dependent manner. However, the involvement of IER3 in human bladder cancer (BCa) has not been elucidated.

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Although dCTP pyrophosphatase 1 (DCTPP1) has been reported to be associated with poor clinical outcomes in various cancers, whether it plays an important role in prostate cancer (PCa) remains unclear. In this study, an immunohistochemical assay showed the protein expression level of DCTPP1 was significantly higher in PCa tissues than in non-cancerous tissues. Moreover, DCTPP1 was upregulated at both protein and mRNA levels in the PCa tissues from high Gleason score patients versus low Gleason score patients.

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