PURPOSE MicroRNAs (miRs) act as either tumor suppressors or oncogenes and are frequently deregulated in cancers. Although downregulation of miR-146b has been reported in various cancers, its role in prostate cancer is totally unknown. METHODS The miR-146b expression in 18 human prostate cancer lines with case-matched adjacent normal tissues was measured by quantitative RT-PCR. Furthermore, th...

It is known that aquaporin 9 (AQP9) in the prostate was strictly upregulated by androgen and may represent a novel therapeutic target for several cancers, but whether AQP9 plays a role in the regulation of androgen-independent prostate cancer still remains unclear. In the present study, AQP9 was determined in prostate cancer and adjacent cancer tissues; AQP9-siRNA was applied to silencing AQP9 ...

Prostate cancer is the most diagnosed noncutaneous cancer and ranks as the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in American males. Metastasis is the primary cause of prostate cancer mortality. Survival rate is only 28% for metastatic patients, but is nearly 100% for patients with localized prostate cancers. Molecular mechanisms that underlie this malignancy remain obscure, and this stu...

In this project, we focus on building a prostate palpation simulator where a practitioner teaches his/herself a process called Digital Rectal Examination (DRE). While conventional mock-up-based training simulators can only provide a fixed number of abnormal conditions, our simulator is capable of creating various prostate abnormalities ranged from a single small tumor to multiple larger tumors,...

BACKGROUND Global histone modifications have been implicated in the progression of various tumour entities. Our study was designed to assess global methylation levels of histone 4 lysine 20 (H4K20me1-3) at different stages of prostate cancer (PCA) carcinogenesis. METHODS Global H4K20 methylation levels were evaluated using a tissue microarray in patients with clinically localized PCA (n = 113...

O-GlcNAc is an O-linked ?-N-acetylglucosamine moiety attached to the side-chain hydroxyl of a serine or threonine residue in numerous cytoplasmic and nuclear proteins. In this study, we detected the level of O-GlcNAc in prostate, liver and pancreatic cancer tissues, and found that the global O-GlcNAc modification also known as O-GlcNAcylation, is specifically increased in prostate cancer tissue...

Near‑infrared fluorescence (NIRF) imaging is an attractive novel modality for the detection of cancer. A previous study defined two organic polymethine cyanine dyes as ideal NIRF probes, IR‑783 and its derivative MHI‑148, which have excellent optical characteristics, superior biocompatibility and cancer targeting abilities. To investigate the feasibility of NIRF dye‑mediated prostate cancer ima...

We examined microRNA-181b (miRNA) expression in prostate cancer tissues and its effect on the prostate cancer cell line PC-3. Tissues from 27 cases of prostate cancer and 30 samples of normal human prostate were collected by surgical removal. Total miRNA was extracted, and the relative expression of miR-181b was quantified using RT-PCR. miR-181b ASO was transfected into prostate cancer PC-3 cel...

PURPOSE The androgen receptor (AR) plays a central role in prostate cancer. Evidence from several groups indicates that epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) may enhance AR activity in prostate cancer cell lines. This study was designed to investigate the protein expression of AR, EGFR, and HER2 and to determine whether the EGFR and HER2 gen...