MicroRNA: a new and promising potential biomarker for diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancer

Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the leading cause of death among all gynecological malignancies. Despite the technological and medical advances over the past four decades, such as the development of several biological markers (mRNA and proteins biomarkers), the mortality rate of ovarian cancer re...

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Main Authors: Manish K. Pal, Shyam P. Jaiswar, Vinaya N. Dwivedi, Amit K. Tripathi, Ashish Dwivedi, Pushplata Sankhwar
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Published: China Anti-Cancer Association 2015-12-01
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Online Access:http://www.cancerbiomed.org/index.php/cocr/article/view/887
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author Manish K. Pal
Shyam P. Jaiswar
Vinaya N. Dwivedi
Amit K. Tripathi
Ashish Dwivedi
Pushplata Sankhwar
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description Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the leading cause of death among all gynecological malignancies. Despite the technological and medical advances over the past four decades, such as the development of several biological markers (mRNA and proteins biomarkers), the mortality rate of ovarian cancer remains a challenge because of its late diagnosis, which is specifically attributed to low specificities and sensitivities. Under this compulsive scenario, recent advances in expression biology have shifted in identifying and developing specific and sensitive biomarkers, such as microRNAs (miRNAs) for cancer diagnosis and prognosis. MiRNAs are a novel class of small non-coding RNAs that deregulate gene expression at the posttranscriptional level, either by translational repression or by mRNA degradation. These mechanisms may be involved in a complex cascade of cellular events associated with the pathophysiology of many types of cancer. MiRNAs are easily detectable in tissue and blood samples of cancer patients. Therefore, miRNAs hold good promise as potential biomarkers in ovarian cancer. In this review, we attempted to provide a comprehensive profile of key miRNAs involved in ovarian carcinoma to establish miRNAs as more reliable non-invasive clinical biomarkers for early detection of ovarian cancer compared with protein and DNA biomarkers.
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spelling doaj.art-722fafe1e646411f8ba765f0d5f3d8832022-12-22T00:40:14ZengChina Anti-Cancer AssociationCancer Biology & Medicine2095-39412095-39412015-12-0112432834110.7497/j.issn.2095-3941.2015.00242015000024MicroRNA: a new and promising potential biomarker for diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancerManish K. Pal0Shyam P. Jaiswar1Vinaya N. Dwivedi2Amit K. Tripathi3Ashish Dwivedi4Pushplata Sankhwar5Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, King George Medical University, Lucknow, UP 226003, India;Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, King George Medical University, Lucknow, UP 226003, India;Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Laboratory Center for Advanced Study in Zoology, Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP 221005, India;Endocrinology Division, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, UP 226001, India;Photobiology Division, Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, MG Marg, Lucknow, UP 226001, IndiaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, King George Medical University, Lucknow, UP 226003, India;Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the leading cause of death among all gynecological malignancies. Despite the technological and medical advances over the past four decades, such as the development of several biological markers (mRNA and proteins biomarkers), the mortality rate of ovarian cancer remains a challenge because of its late diagnosis, which is specifically attributed to low specificities and sensitivities. Under this compulsive scenario, recent advances in expression biology have shifted in identifying and developing specific and sensitive biomarkers, such as microRNAs (miRNAs) for cancer diagnosis and prognosis. MiRNAs are a novel class of small non-coding RNAs that deregulate gene expression at the posttranscriptional level, either by translational repression or by mRNA degradation. These mechanisms may be involved in a complex cascade of cellular events associated with the pathophysiology of many types of cancer. MiRNAs are easily detectable in tissue and blood samples of cancer patients. Therefore, miRNAs hold good promise as potential biomarkers in ovarian cancer. In this review, we attempted to provide a comprehensive profile of key miRNAs involved in ovarian carcinoma to establish miRNAs as more reliable non-invasive clinical biomarkers for early detection of ovarian cancer compared with protein and DNA biomarkers.http://www.cancerbiomed.org/index.php/cocr/article/view/887MicroRNAs (miRNA)biomarkerchemoresistancedetectionRT-PCR
spellingShingle Manish K. Pal
Shyam P. Jaiswar
Vinaya N. Dwivedi
Amit K. Tripathi
Ashish Dwivedi
Pushplata Sankhwar
MicroRNA: a new and promising potential biomarker for diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancer
Cancer Biology & Medicine
MicroRNAs (miRNA)
biomarker
chemoresistance
detection
RT-PCR
title MicroRNA: a new and promising potential biomarker for diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancer
title_full MicroRNA: a new and promising potential biomarker for diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancer
title_fullStr MicroRNA: a new and promising potential biomarker for diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancer
title_full_unstemmed MicroRNA: a new and promising potential biomarker for diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancer
title_short MicroRNA: a new and promising potential biomarker for diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancer
title_sort microrna a new and promising potential biomarker for diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancer
topic MicroRNAs (miRNA)
biomarker
chemoresistance
detection
RT-PCR
url http://www.cancerbiomed.org/index.php/cocr/article/view/887
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