Altered miR-93-5p/miR-18a expression in serum for diagnosing non-small cell lung cancer.

Objective: This research aimed at probing into miR-93-5p and miR-18a's diagnostic and prognostic values in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients.

Methods: A total of 107 patients diagnosed with NSCLC in the Department of Oncology and Thoracic Surgery of our hospital from January 2015 to June 2016 were regarded as the research group (RG), and 42 healthy people were considered as the control group (CG). Serum samples were collected and miR-93-5p, miR-18a expression was detected via qPCR.

MiRNA-34a overexpression inhibits multiple myeloma cancer stem cell growth in mice by suppressing TGIF2.

Hematological malignancy originated from B-cell line, multiple myeloma (MM), is a kind of plasma cells in bone marrow hyperplasia and cause of osteoclast-mediated skeletal destruction disease. MiR-34a plays an important epigenetic regulating role in malignant tumors and presents a therapeutic potential. In this study, we investigated the effects of overexpression of miR-34a in MM cancer stem cells (CSCs) on tumor growth and bone lesions.

Decreasing lncRNA HOTAIR expression inhibits human colorectal cancer stem cells.

Research on the relationship between aberrant long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) and cancer stem cell (CSC) biology in cancer patients has been recently gaining attention. The goal of this study was to investigate whether the decreasing lncRNA HOTAIR expression would inhibit human colorectal cancer (CRC) stem cells. CD133(+)CSCs were isolated from human CRC LoVo cell line by using a magnetic-activated cell sorting system, and were transfected with the expression vector-based small hairpin RNA targeting HOTAIR (shHOTAIR).

Cancer stem cell vaccine expressing ESAT-6-gpi and IL-21 inhibits melanoma growth and metastases.

Tumor vaccines may induce antitumor efficacy, however, weak immunogenicity of tumor antigens is one of the prime obstacles for excitation of the antitumor immune responses. Therefore, strategies that enhance immunogenicity of tumor vaccines are of particular interest. In this study, a novel melanoma B16F10 CD133(+)CD44(+) cancer stem cell (CSC) vaccine expressing 6 kDa early secreted antigenic target (ESAT-6) in the glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored form and secreting interleukin (IL)-21 was developed.