Research progress on relationship between microRNA and gastric cancer / 中国药理学通报

ABSTRACT

Gastric cancer has a high incidence and accounts for a notable proportion of global cancer mortality.The pathogenesis of gastric cancer is complex involving multiple genetic and epige-netic alterations factors.In recent years,studies have also dem-onstrated the aberrant regulation of miRNAs in a variety of tumor pathological processes including the gastric cancer through af-fecting cell proliferation,differentiation and apoptosis.miRNA also plays important roles in gastric cancer growing,invasion, metastasis,and drug resistance of gastric cancers,which might become new biomarkers and potential therapeutic targets in the future.This paper summarizes several important miRNAs in-volved in gastric cancer and also discusses their function.