MIR21, microRNA 21, 406991

N. diseases: 726; N. variants: 2
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE miR-21 can target and inhibit tumor suppressor gene PTEN expression to promote prostate cancer cell proliferation and invasion. 28107872 2017
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Clinical samples from patients with advanced prostate cancer expressed high levels of miR-21 and p47(phox), and low expression of maspin and PDCD4. 23682737 2013
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Combination of three miRNA (miR-141, miR-21, and miR-375) as potential diagnostic tool for prostate cancer recognition. 30014459 2018
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Compared with adjacent non-cancerous prostate tissues, the expression level of miR-21 was significantly increased in PCa tissues (PCa vs. non-cancerous prostate: 1.3273 ± 0.3207 vs. 0.9970 ± 0.2054, P < 0.001). 27040772 2016
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Except for miR-21 and miR-206, the expression levels of all miRNAs significantly changed during the progression of CaP. 21880514 2013
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Four miRNAs (miRNA-21, miRNA-34a, miRNA-125, and miRNA-126) were significantly upregulated in PCa compared to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), and except for miRNA-21 these miRNAs documented a positive correlation between the expression level in PCa cores and their matched BPH cores, (r > 0.72). 28628624 2017
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Functional experiments in prostate cancer cells directly showed that miR-21 plays a critical role in suppressing IFN-induced apoptosis. 20813833 2010
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Here we show that loss of miR-15 and miR-16 in cooperation with increased miR-21 expression promote prostate cancer spreading and bone lesions. 26073083 2016
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Here, we have shown that hypoxia leads to increased expression of VEGF, IL-6, and CSC marker genes such as Nanog, Oct4 and EZH2, and also increased the expression of miR-21, an oncogenic miRNA, in prostate cancer (PCa) cells (PC-3 and LNCaP). 22952749 2012
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE However, contrasting to others tumors, such as breast cancer where miR-21 seems to be consistently upregulated; PCa data are controversial. 31416574 2020
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE In summary, our findings show that miR-21 is associated with prostate cancer recurrence after radical prostatectomy and suggest that the differential expression of miR-21 is more prominent in obese than in non-obese cases. 23353719 2013
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In this study, miR-21 was overexpressed by transfecting pre-miR-21 into human prostate cancer cells and tumor angiogenesis was assayed using chicken chorioallantoic membrane (CAM). 21544242 2011
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE In this study, the effects of miR-21 on prostate cancer cell proliferation, apoptosis, and invasion were examined. 19302977 2009
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In this study, we evaluated the role of IL-6 in PDCD4 gene expression and how the microRNA miR-21 regulates this process in prostate cancer cell lines PC-3 and LNCaP. 26252635 2015
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE MiR-1 and miR-143 are frequently reduced in human prostate cancer (PCa), while miR-141 and miR-21 are frequently elevated. 29739972 2018
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Moreover, inhibition of miR-21-5p or miR-21-3p resulted in a significant decrease in ovarian and prostate cancer cell proliferation and invasion. 27166999 2016
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our findings suggest that miR-21 contributed to the resistance of PC3 cells to docetaxel, and that targeting miR-21 may offer a promising therapeutic approach in sensitizing prostate cancer to docetaxel treatment. 20581857 2010
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our results of analysis of miR-21, miR-141, miR-18a and miR-221 in the plasma of PC patients showed that miR-18a is a powerful discriminator of PC patients from healthy controls as it had the highest AUC (0.966; 95% CI, 0.937-1.000), while miR-221 provided better differentiation of metastatic from localised PC (sensitivity was 92.9% at 100% specificity), and when we combine miR-18a and miR-221 for differentiating patients with MPC, it will increase the sensitivity to 96.4% at a specificity of 100% (AUC, 0.997; 95% CI, 0.988-1.0) (p < .000). 31483058 2019
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Our results revealed that miR-21 suppresses TGFBR2 levels by binding to its 3'-UTR and AR signaling further potentiates this effect in both untransformed and transformed human prostate epithelial cells as well as in human prostate cancers. 24037531 2014
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Over expressed MiR-21 in prostate cancer is associated with metastasis and drug resistance to chemotherapy with Docetaxel. 29447469 2019
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Overexpression of miR-21 promoted androgen-dependent and -independent PCa cell proliferation, migration, invasion, and resistance to apoptosis. 31002531 2019
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Positive predictive value analysis of prostate cancer was increased from 40% to 87.5% by integrating patient PSA blood levels with miR-21 and miR-141 profiles. 21345070 2011
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Promising preliminary results were published concerning miR-141, miR-375 and miR-21, but larger and prospective studies using standardized methodology are necessary to define the value of miRNAs in the detection and prognosis of PCa. 26751899 2017
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis revealed that the cut-off point of miR-21 for diagnosis of PCa was 0.9 with a sensitivity of 87.5% and a specificity of 85.7%. 26247873 2015
CUI: C0376358
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of prostate
Malignant neoplasm of prostate
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Regarding urinary exosomes, miR-21 and miR-375 were also significantly upregulated in PCa but no differences were found for miR-141. 27990656 2017