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JOURNAL OF HISTOCHEMISTRY & CYTOCHEMISTRY
Volume 65, Issue 6, Pages 335-346Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1369/0022155417702849
Keywords
in situ hybridization; miR-210; TNBC; tumor microenvironment
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- Institute of Pathology and Genetics-scientific research fundings (Gosselies, Belgium)
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The triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) subtype occurs in about 15% of breast cancer and is an aggressive subtype of breast cancer with poor outcome. Furthermore, treatment of patients with TNBC is more challenging due to the heterogeneity of the disease and the absence of well-defined molecular targets. Microribonucleic acid (RNA) represents a new class of biomarkers that are frequently dysregulated in cancer. It has been described that the microRNA miR-210 is highly expressed in TNBC, and its overexpression had been linked to poor prognosis. TNBC are often infiltrated by immune cells that play a key role in cancer progression. The techniques traditionally used to analyze miR-210 expression such as next generation sequencing or quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) do not allow the precise identification of the cellular subtype expressing the microRNA. In this study, we have analyzed miR-210 expression by in situ hybridization in TNBC. The miR-210 signal was detected in tumor cells, but also in the tumor microenvironment, in a region positive for the pan-leucocyte marker CD45-LCA. Taken together, our results demonstrate that miR-210 is expressed in tumor cells but also in the tumor microenvironment. Our results also highlight the utility of using complementary approaches to take into account the cellular context of microRNA expression.
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