MicroRNA-29b-3p suppresses oral squamous cell carcinoma cell migration and invasion via IL32/AKT signalling pathway.
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SUBMITTER: He J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6933408 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
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MicroRNA-29b-3p suppresses oral squamous cell carcinoma cell migration and invasion via IL32/AKT signalling pathway.
He Jianya J Ye Wen W Kou Ni N Chen Kang K Cui Bai B Zhang Xiaohong X Hu Shuhai S Liu Tingjiao T Kang Lan L Li Xiaojie X
Journal of cellular and molecular medicine 20191103 1
Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is aggressive accompanied with poor prognosis. We previously isolated the most invasive cells resembling the invasive tumour front by microfluidic technology and explored their differentially expressed microRNAs (miRNAs) in our previous work. Here, we verified the miR-29b-3p as a guarder that suppressed migration and invasion of OSCC cells and was down-regulated in the most invasive cells. Besides that, the invasion suppression role of miR-29b-3p was achieved ...[more]
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