Osteosarcoma is the most common primary malig‐ nancy of bone, and is a high‐grade malignant mesenchymal tumor with high recurrence and metastatic rates. Increased expression of secreted protein, acidic and rich in cysteine (SPARC) indicates poor prognosis in a number of malig‐ nances. However, the expression level of SPARC in human osteosarcoma and its associated mechanism remains unclear. To a...

Osteosarcoma is the most common primary malignancy of bone. Even after the traditional standard surgical therapy, metastasis still occurs in a high percentage of patients. Glucose is an important source of metabolic energy for tumor proliferation and survival. Tumors usually overexpress glucose transporters, especially hypoxia-responsive glucose transporter 1 and glucose transporter 3. Osteopon...

Microenvironment at the metastatic locus usually differs greatly from that present in the site of primary tumor formation and it has a significant impact on the fate of the extravasated cancer cells. We compared gene expression signatures of primary tumors and lung metastatic tumors, and identified Thrombospondin-1 (TSP1) as highly up-regulated in the lung metastatic tumors. Immunohistochemical...

Osteosarcoma is the most common primary bone tumor, with metastatic disease responsible for most treatment failure and patient death. A forward genetic screen utilizing Sleeping Beauty mutagenesis in mice previously identified potential genetic drivers of osteosarcoma metastasis, including Slit-Robo GTPase-Activating Protein 2 (Srgap2). This study evaluates the potential role of SRGAP2 in metas...

OBJECTIVE SOX9 plays an important role in bone formation and tumorigenesis. However, its involvement in osteosarcoma is still unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate the expression pattern and the clinical significance of SOX9 in human osteosarcoma. METHODS SOX9 mRNA and protein expression levels were detected by RT-PCR and Western blot assays, respectively, using 30 pairs of osteos...

osteosarcoma (os) is the eighth common cancer of childhood and its incidence is 4 cases in one million in children younger than 14. facial os incidence is estimated between 8 and 10% of os cases. the main etiology of os is unknown, but various predisposing factors are proposed such as radiation, radiotherapy, some benign bone diseases like paget’s disease or fibrous dysplasia. there is a 5-year...

Osteosarcoma is the most prevalent type of primary malignant bone tumor. Inhibitor of growth 4 (ING4) has been demonstrated to function as a tumor suppressor through multiple pathways, and is its expression is understood to be suppressed or reduced in various malignancies. The present study aimed to investigate the expression of ING4 and to determine its prognostic value in osteosarcoma tissue....

Recent evidence has demonstrated that microRNAs (miRNAs) are involved in the proliferation and metastasis of osteosarcoma. Using miRNA microarray and functional screening methods to compare miRNA expression profiles in osteosarcoma cell lines treated with Trichostatin A (TSA), overexpression of miR-542-5p was determined to be involved in the proliferation of osteosarcoma. We used isobaric tags ...

Osteosarcoma is the most common malignant bone tumor in children and young adults. Despite the use of surgery and multi-agent chemotherapy, osteosarcoma patients who have a poor response to chemotherapy or develop relapses have a dismal outcome. Identification of biomarkers for active disease may help to monitor tumor burden, detect early relapses, and predict prognosis in these patients. In th...

AIMS The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation between single necleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2) gene with osteosarcoma susceptibility in Chinese Han population. METHODS 90 patients with osteosarcoma and 100 healthy controls who were frequency-matched with the former by age and gender were enrolled for a case-control study. 5 ...