1,25-(OH)2D3 increased the steady-state levels of VEGF mRNA in a time- and concentration-dependent manner in HObLC and one of the osteosarcoma cell lines, SaOS-2, accompanied by an increase in the concentration of immunoreactive VEGF in the conditioned medium.
VEGF gene might be closely related to the apoptosis and proliferation of osteosarcoma cells, and appears to be crucial for formation of vasculogenic mimicry in osteosarcoma.
According to Cox regression analysis, the VEGF+1612A/G, -634G/C, and +936T/C polymorphisms did not statistically significantly increase the risk of overall survival of patients with osteosarcoma.
Amentoflavone significantly inhibits tumor growth and reduces protein levels of phospho-extracellular signal-regulated kinase (P-ERK), nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-κB) p65 (Ser536), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), matrix metallopeptidase 9 (MMP-9), X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein (XIAP), and cyclin-D1 in osteosarcoma in vivo.
Analysis of previously published OS aCGH data (GSE9654) and aCGH data from this study (GSE19180) identified significant deletion of WWOX in 30% (6/20) of OS samples, whilst significant increase in both RUNX2 and VEGFA gene copy numbers were detected in 55% (11/20) and 60% (12/20) of OS samples, respectively.
Angiogenesis plays a role in the progression of osteosarcoma, as well as in other mesenchymal tumors and carcinomas, and it is most commonly assessed by vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression or tumor CD31-positive microvessel density (MVD).
Besides, miR-29b directly targets VEGF and over-expression of miR-29b led to down-regulation of VEGF protein level, In conclusions, miR-29b may play an important role in osteosarcoma progression, which might negatively regulate the expression of VEGF and suppresses proliferation and induces apoptosis of MG63 cell line.
CXCR4 and VEGF expression in the primary site and the metastatic site of human osteosarcoma: analysis within a group of patients, all of whom developed lung metastasis.
Cyr61 and VEGF expressions moderately correlated with each other in osteosarcoma, and exhibited significant association with Enneking stage and distant metastasis.
Effect of cortisol on cell proliferation and the expression of lipoprotein lipase and vascular endothelial growth factor in a human osteosarcoma cell line.
Epigenetic modulators hydralazine and sodium valproate act synergistically in VEGI-mediated anti-angiogenesis and VEGF interference in human osteosarcoma and vascular endothelial cells.
Furthermore, the results showed that vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression was down-regulated in osteosarcoma cells after miR-145 transfection.
Future studies should examine the relationship between VEGF isoform expression and patients' survival and the relationship between VEGF isoform expression and EMMPRIN expression, which could be helpful for predicting the prognosis of patients with osteosarcoma.
Here, we screened an OS cell-specific aptamer (LC09) and developed a LC09-functionalized PEG-PEI-Cholesterol (PPC) lipopolymer encapsulating CRISPR/Cas9 plasmids encoding VEGFA gRNA and Cas9.
However the impact of VEGFA gene amplification has been only recently assessed for some cancer types such as osteosarcoma, colorectal, breast and liver cancer.
In addition, we detected the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) in osteosarcoma cell treated with Eag1 small interfering RNAs (siRNAs).