CC tissues; matched normal tissues; adjacent normal tissues; tumor tissues
SiHa; CaSki; Hela; C4-1; NC104
cell line-derived xenograft
ceRNA regulation (promotes); proliferation (promotes); migration (promotes); invasion (promotes); EMT (promotes); metastasis (promotes)
RT-qPCR; Clinical Sample Validation; Transfection; CCK8; Colony Formation Assay; Transwell Assay; Western Blot; Luciferase Reporter Assay; RNA Pull-Down; In Vivo Animal Model; Survival Analysis; Bioinformatics Analysis
circ_0067934 upregulation was associated with advanced stage, lymph node metastasis, and poor prognosis in cervical cancer patients; high circ_0067934 expression predicted low survival rate.
circ_0067934 is upregulated in cervical cancer tissues and cell lines and its high expression is associated with advanced FIGO stage, lymph node metastasis, and poor survival. Functionally, circ_0067934 promotes proliferation, colony formation, migration, invasion, EMT, and xenograft tumor growth. Mechanistically, it facilitates cervical cancer progression through the miR-545/EIF3C axis.
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Overexpressed circ_0067934 acts as an oncogene to facilitate cervical cancer progression via the miR-545/EIF3C axis.
combined biological and clinical study