The Role of MALAT1 in Regulating the Proangiogenic Functions, Invasion, and Migration of Trophoblasts in Selective Fetal Growth Restriction.

Epigenetic regulation is an important entry point to study the pathogenesis of selective fetal growth restriction (sFGR), and an understanding of the role of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in sFGR is lacking. Our study aimed to investigate the potential role of a lncRNA, metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (MALAT1), in sFGR using molecular biology experiments and gain- or loss-of-function assays. We found that the levels of MALAT1, ERRγ, and HSD17B1 were downregulated and that of miR-424 was upregulated in the placental shares of the smaller twins.

Macrophage-coated tumor cluster aggravates hepatoma invasion and immunotherapy resistance via generating local immune deprivation.

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) represent a promising treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) due to their capacity for abundant lymphocyte infiltration. However, some patients with HCC respond poorly to ICI therapy due to the presence of various immunosuppressive factors in the tumor microenvironment. Our research reveals that a macrophage-coated tumor cluster (MCTC) signifies a unique spatial structural organization in HCC correlating with diminished recurrence-free survival and overall survival in a total of 572 HCC cases from 3 internal cohorts and 2 independent external validation cohorts.

Intratumoral microbial heterogeneity affected tumor immune microenvironment and determined clinical outcome of HBV-related HCC.

Background And Aims: The intratumoral microbiome has been reported to regulate the development and progression of cancers. We aimed to characterize intratumoral microbial heterogeneity (IMH) and establish microbiome-based molecular subtyping of HBV-related HCC to elucidate the correlation between IMH and HCC tumorigenesis.

Approach And Results: A case-control study was designed to investigate microbial landscape and characteristic microbial signatures of HBV-related HCC tissues adopting metagenomics next-generation sequencing.

Vasohibin 2 promotes lymphangiogenesis of lung squamous cell carcinoma through snail-dependent vascular endothelial growth factor-D (VEGF-D) signaling pathway.

Background: Tumor lymphatic metastasis is mostly dependent on lymphangiogenesis, which was less studied compared to angiogenesis and the molecular mechanisms involved remained unclear.

Methods: We analyzed the mRNA expression profiles of 937 primary lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) databases to explore the genes related to lymphatic metastasis in LUSC. We focused on vasohibin 2 (VASH2) and investigated its biological functions in LUSC proliferation, apoptosis, migration, invasion, as well as lymphangiogenesis capacity by forced over-expressing VASH2 in LUSC cell line H520 and .

ATP8B1 Knockdown Activated the Choline Metabolism Pathway and Induced High-Level Intracellular REDOX Homeostasis in Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

The flippase ATPase class I type 8b member 1 (ATP8B1) is essential for maintaining the stability and polarity of the epithelial membrane and can translocate specific phospholipids from the outer membrane to the inner membrane of the cell. Although ATP8B1 plays important roles in cell functions, ATP8B1 has been poorly studied in tumors and its prognostic value in patients with lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) remains unclear. By investigating the whole genomic expression profiles of LUSC samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database and Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital (TJMUCH) cohort, we found that low expression of ATP8B1 was associated with poor prognosis of LUSC patients.

Association of Total Thyroidectomy or Thyroid Lobectomy With the Quality of Life in Patients With Differentiated Thyroid Cancer With Low to Intermediate Risk of Recurrence.

Importance: Owing to the good prognosis of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), guidelines recommend total thyroidectomy (TT) or thyroid lobectomy (TL) as surgical treatment for DTC with low to intermediate risk of recurrence. However, the association of these surgeries with the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of patients with DTC with low to intermediate risk of recurrence is unclear.

Objective: To longitudinally compare the HRQOL of patients with DTC undergoing different surgeries.

The mutation landscape of multiple cancer predisposition genes in Chinese familial/hereditary breast cancer families.

Objective: Approximately 5%-10% of breast cancer (BC) patients display familial traits that are genetically inherited among the members of a family. The purpose of this study was to profile the germline mutations in 43 genes with different penetration rates and their correlations with phenotypic traits in Chinese familial BC families.

Methods: Ion Torrent S5™-based next generation sequencing was conducted on 116 subjects from 27 Chinese familial BC families.

Lin28A promotes the proliferation and stemness of lung cancer cells via the activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway dependent on microRNA let-7c.

Background: Among patients with lung cancer, metastatic and relapsed cases account for the largest proportion of disease-associated deaths. Tumor metastasis and relapse are believed to originate from cancer stem cells (CSCs), which have the capacity to be highly proliferative and invasive. In our previous studies, we established a conditional basement membrane extract-based (BME-based) 3-dimensional (3D) culture system to mimic the tumor growth environment and further amplified lung cancer stem cells (LCSCs) in our system.

A hereditary ovarian cancer family with rare pathogenic splicing mutation: Implications for variant interpretation.

The BRCA1/2 gene is important for assessing the risk of familial/hereditary ovarian cancer (OC). This case is a patient with OC, and two of her immediate family members are cancer patients. We sequenced the coding and splicing regions of 42 OC susceptibility genes, and found a rare pathogenic splicing mutation BRCA1:c.

Imbalance of TGF-β1/BMP-7 pathways induced by M2-polarized macrophages promotes hepatocellular carcinoma aggressiveness.

The transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) signaling pathway is the predominant cytokine signaling pathway in the development and progression of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP), another member of the TGF-β superfamily, has been frequently found to participate in crosstalk with the TGF-β pathway. However, the complex interaction between the TGF-β and BMP pathways has not been fully elucidated in HCC.

Association of sleep duration with stroke, myocardial infarction, and tumors in a Chinese population with metabolic syndrome: a retrospective study.

Background: Previous studies have suggested that abnormal sleep duration is associated with increased risk of metabolic syndrome (MetS). However, evidence on the association of sleep duration with stroke, myocardial infarction (MI) and tumors in populations with MetS is limited.

Methods: A total of 8968 participants (2754 with MetS at baseline) were recruited in this retrospective study between March 2012 and December 2012.

Cancer exosome-derived miR-9 and miR-181a promote the development of early-stage MDSCs via interfering with SOCS3 and PIAS3 respectively in breast cancer.

We previously identified that the development of early-stage myeloid-derived suppressor cells (eMDSCs) in breast cancer with high IL-6 (IL-6) expression was correlated with the SOCS3 deficiency-dependent hyperactivation of the JAK/STAT signaling pathway. However, the regulatory mechanisms have not yet been elucidated. In this study, we aimed to investigate how the posttranscriptional regulation mediated by cancer exosome-derived miRNAs affected the JAK/STAT signaling pathway and the development of eMDSCs.

Macrophages-induced long noncoding RNA H19 up-regulation triggers and activates the miR-193b/MAPK1 axis and promotes cell aggressiveness in hepatocellular carcinoma.

Dysregulation of long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) H19 has been implicated in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but the concrete regulatory mechanism is lack of research. We mined gene expression profiles of 457 HCC samples from TCGA and TJMUCH cohorts and further validated in 64 FFPE HCC tissues. LncRNA H19 overexpression in situ was significantly correlated with poor prognosis of HCC patients, which induced EMT, promoted stemness and accelerated invasion of HCC cells in vitro.

The Association between Resting Heart Rate and Urinary Albumin/Creatinine Ratio in Middle-Aged and Elderly Chinese Population: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Objective: In general population, resting heart rate (RHR) is associated with cardiovascular disease. However, its relation to chronic kidney disease (CKD) is debated. We therefore investigated the relationship between RHR and urinary albumin/creatinine ratio (UACR, an indicator of early kidney injury) in general population at different levels of blood pressure and blood glucose.

Self-reported sleep duration and daytime napping are associated with renal hyperfiltration and microalbuminuria in an apparently healthy Chinese population.

Background: Sleep duration affects health in various ways. The objective of the present study was to investigate the relationships among sleep duration, daytime napping and kidney function in a middle-aged apparently healthy Chinese population.

Methods: According to self-reported total sleep and daytime napping durations, 33,850 participants who were 38-90 years old and recruited from eight regional centers were divided into subgroups.

LINE-1 Retrotransposition Promotes the Development and Progression of Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Disrupting the Tumor-Suppressor Gene FGGY.

Somatic long interspersed element-1 () retrotransposition is a genomic process that relates to gene disruption and tumor occurrence. However, the expression and function of retrotransposition in lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) remain unclear. We analyzed the transcriptomes of LUSC samples in The Cancer Genome Atlas and observed retrotransposition in 90% of tumor samples.

Association between the Number of Childbirths and the Progress of Atherosclerosis among Women with Diabetes: A Cohort Study Based on Chinese Population.

Background: The aim of this study is to explore the association between the number of childbirths and the progress of atherosclerosis among Chinese women with hypertension or diabetes.

Methods: In total, 1159 Chinese parous women from a community longitudinal survey conducted in the communities of Shijingshan district, Beijing, China, were included in our study. They were divided into three groups according to the number of childbirths, and the change in pulse wave velocity (PWV) was as an indicator of the progression of atherosclerosis because the increased PWV reflected the more serious atherosclerosis.

Opposing roles and potential antagonistic mechanism between TGF-β and BMP pathways: Implications for cancer progression.

The transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) superfamily participates in tumour proliferation, apoptosis, differentiation, migration, invasion, immune evasion and extracellular matrix remodelling. Genetic deficiency in distinct components of TGF-β and BMP-induced signalling pathways or their excessive activation has been reported to regulate the development and progression of some cancers. As more in-depth studies about this superfamily have been conducted, more evidence suggests that the TGF-β and BMP pathways play an opposing role.

Benefit of everolimus as a monotherapy for a refractory breast cancer patient bearing multiple genetic mutations in the PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway.

A postmenopausal patient with a diagnosis of estrogen receptor (ER) (+), progesterone receptor (PR) (+), and human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2) (-) breast cancer was reported. The patient refused surgery and was resistant to conventional chemotherapy regimens. Computed tomography and the circulating tumor cell test indicated that the patient's tumor burden increased rapidly even after several chemotherapy sessions.

SOCS3 Suppression Promoted the Recruitment of CD11bGr-1F4/80MHCII Early-Stage Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells and Accelerated Interleukin-6-Related Tumor Invasion Affecting Myeloid Differentiation in Breast Cancer.

Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is an important trigger for the expansion and recruitment of myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs), which are regarded to be major coordinators of the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment. In this study, we constructed IL-6-knockdown breast cancer mice models to explore the molecular events involved in the IL-6-mediated effects on MDSC development. We defined a subset of early-stage MDSCs (e-MDSCs) with the phenotype of CD11bGr-1F4/80MHCII in IL-6 high-expressing 4T1 mice mammary carcinoma models, which were the precursors of CD11bGr-1 conventional MDSCs.

Neurotensin/IL-8 pathway orchestrates local inflammatory response and tumor invasion by inducing M2 polarization of Tumor-Associated macrophages and epithelial-mesenchymal transition of hepatocellular carcinoma cells.

We previously demonstrated that neurotensin (NTS) induces local inflammation and promotes tumor invasion in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, the underlying molecular mechanisms are not clear. In this study, positive correlations between NTS and interleukin (IL)-8 were identified at both the mRNA and protein levels in 71 fresh HCC tissues and 100 paraffin-embedded HCC tissues.

Interleukin-6 -Signaling Pathway Promotes Immunosuppressive Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells Suppression of Suppressor of Cytokine Signaling 3 in Breast Cancer.

Interleukin-6 (IL-6) has been reported to stimulate myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) in multiple cancers, but the molecular events involved in this process are not completely understood. We previously found that cancer-derived IL-6 induces T cell suppression of MDSCs the activation of STAT3/IDO signaling pathway. In this study, we aimed to elucidate the underlying mechanisms.

FGF1 and IGF1-conditioned 3D culture system promoted the amplification and cancer stemness of lung cancer cells.

Lung cancer stem cells (LCSCs) are considered as the cellular origins of metastasis and relapse of lung cancer. However, routine two-dimensional culture system (2D-culture) hardly mimics the growth and functions of LCSCs in vivo and therefore significantly decreases the stemness activity of LCSCs. In this study, we constructed a special BME-based three-dimensional culture system (3D-culture) to amplify LCSCs in human lung adenocarcinoma cell line A549 cells and found 3D-culture promoted the enrichment and amplification of LCSCs in A549 cells displaying higher proliferation potential and invasion activity, but lower apoptosis.

Rapid response of brain metastasis to crizotinib in a patient with KLC1-ALK fusion and MET gene amplification positive non-small cell lung cancer: a case report.

Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) ranks as the leading cause of cancer-related death in the world. Brain metastasis (BM) is a common complication of NSCLC, with 25%-40% of patients developing BM during the course of the disease. A significant strategy of local disease control in the central nervous system is radiation therapy.