High recurrence rates of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) in patients require lifelong testing and monitoring. The aim of this study is to develop a simplified RT-qPCR method (RT-qPCR-D) which directly quantifies cell-free miR-155 in urine without RNA extraction, and assess it as a potential tool in NMIBC detection. A pilot study including 60 urine samples was used to investigate the ...

Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) is a rare, aggressive, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that is characterized by CD30 expression and disease onset in young patients. About half of ALCL patients bear the t(2;5)(p23;q35) translocation, which results in the formation of the nucleophosmin-anaplastic lymphoma tyrosine kinase (NPM-ALK) fusion protein (ALCL ALK(+)). However, little is known about the mole...

To gain insight into miRNA regulation in metastasis formation, we used a metastasis cell line model that allows investigation of extravasation and colonization of circulating cancer cells to lungs in mice. Using global miRNA profiling, 28 miRNAs were found to exhibit significantly altered expression between isogenic metastasizing and non-metastasizing cancer cells, with miR-155 being the most d...

MicroRNA (miRNA, miR)-155 is the most promising pro-inflammatory miRNA molecule. Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and oxidized low-density lipoprotein (oxLDL) are the most well-known foreign antigens, initiating immune responses against infection and the development of atherosclerosis (AS), respectively. To explore whether miR-155 is involved in regulating LPS- and oxLDL-initiated inflammations, we inv...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small non coding regulatory RNAs that have key functions in multiple cell processes. Deregulation of these tiny miRNAs is involved in various human diseases. MiR-155 is one of the multifunctional miRNA that its over-expression has been found to be associated with different kinds of cancer such as leukemia, breast and colon cancers. It is thought that deregulati...

UNLABELLED Infiltration of immune cells in primary tumors and metastatic sites is known to influence tumor progression and metastasis. Macrophages represent the most abundant immune cells in the tumor microenvironment, and evidence has shown that macrophages promote seeding, extravasation, and persistent growth of tumor cells at metastatic sites. miR-155 plays an essential role in immune cell d...

BACKGROUND In humans and mice naturally occurring CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T cells (nTregs) are a thymus-derived subset of T cells, crucial for the maintenance of peripheral tolerance by controlling not only potentially autoreactive T cells but virtually all cells of the adaptive and innate immune system. Recent work using Dicer-deficient mice irrevocably demonstrated the importance of miRNAs f...

The inflammatory activation of lipid-loaded macrophages in the arterial intima plays a major role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. The unrestricted uptake of oxidatively modified low-density lipoprotein (oxLDL) via scavenger receptors results in the storage of cholesterol esters in lipid droplets in macrophages due to the limited efflux of free cholesterol. However, free cholesterol can ...