Bladder cancer is one of the most common and deadly cancer worldwide. Current chemotherapy has shown limited efficacy in improving outcomes for patients. Nitroxoline, an old and widely used oral antibiotic, which was known to treat for urinary tract infection for decades.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Circular RNA (circRNA) is a novel class noncoding RNA (ncRNA) that plays a critical role in various cancers, including prostate cancer (PCa). However, the clinical significance, biological function, and molecular mechanisms of circRNAs in prostate cancer remain to be elucidated.
Methods: A circRNA array was performed to identified the differentially expressed circRNAs.
Accumulating evidence indicates that hypoxia is highly associated with bladder cancer genesis, progression, and immune microenvironment. Nevertheless, few studies have identified the role of hypoxia-related genes as a prognostic signature in bladder cancer. This study aimed to establish a hypoxia-related signature with high accuracy for prognosis and immune microenvironment prediction in bladder cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe relationship between serum uric acid (UA) levels and cancer risk remains controversial. Here, a two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis was performed to identify a causal effect of serum UA levels on cancer risk. Twenty-six single nucleotide polymorphisms strongly associated with serum UA levels were screened as genetic variants from large-scale meta-analysis data of a genome-wide association study of 110,347 European individuals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNoncoding RNAs are transcribed in the most regions of the human genome, divided into small noncoding RNAs (less than 200 nt) and long noncoding RNAs (more than 200 nt) according to their size. Compelling evidences suggest that small noncoding RNAs play critical roles in tumorigenesis and tumor progression, especially in renal cell carcinoma. MiRNA, the most famous small noncoding RNA, has been comprehensively explored for its fundamental role in cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMetabolism reprograming is a hallmark of cancer and plays an important role in tumor progression. The aberrant metabolism in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) leads to accumulation of the oncometabolite L-2-hydroxyglurate (L-2HG). L-2HG has been reported to inhibit the activity of some α-ketoglutarate-dependent dioxygenases such as TET enzymes, which mediate epigenetic alteration, including DNA and histone demethylation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBenefiting from high spatial resolution and large penetration depth, NIR-II (second near-infrared spectral region, 900-1700 nm) fluorescence imaging based on US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved indocyanine green (ICG) is expected to be a good approach for clinical applications. As of now, nearly all reported works on ICG-assisted NIR-II fluorescence imaging are macro-imaging while micro-angiography is also a significant imaging modality, especially during the diagnosis and treatment of cerebrovascular diseases. Herein, based on NIR-II fluorescence wide-field microscopy, the high-resolution observation of cerebral vasculature was performed at deep brain tissues in mice via intramuscular (IM) injection of ICG.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCerebrovascular diseases, together with malignancies, still pose a huge threat to human health nowadays. With the advantages of its high spatial resolution and large penetration depth, fluorescence bioimaging in the second near-infrared spectral region (NIR-II, 900-1700 nm) and its related imaging-guided therapy based on biocompatible fluorescence dyes have become a promising theranostics method. The biocompatibility of IR-820 we used in NIR-II fluorescence bioimaging was verified by long-term observation.
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