Exosome Cargos as Biomarkers for Diagnosis and Prognosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide. Due to the insidiousness of HCC onset and the lack of specific early-stage markers, the early diagnosis and treatment of HCC are still unsatisfactory, leading to a poor prognosis. Exosomes are a type of extracellular vesicle...

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Published inPharmaceutics Vol. 15; no. 9; p. 2365
Main Authors Zeng, Yulai, Hu, Shuyu, Luo, Yi, He, Kang
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.09.2023
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Subjects
B cells
Biological markers
biomarker
Biomarkers
Biopsy
Biosynthesis
Cancer therapies
Cell cycle
circular RNA
Communication
Development and progression
Diagnosis
Drug resistance
exosome
Extracellular matrix
Extracellular vesicles
hepatocellular carcinoma
Hepatoma
Liver
Liver cancer
Liver cirrhosis
Liver diseases
long noncoding RNA
Medical prognosis
Metastasis
MicroRNA
MicroRNAs
Physiology
Prognosis
Proteins
Review
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Summary:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide. Due to the insidiousness of HCC onset and the lack of specific early-stage markers, the early diagnosis and treatment of HCC are still unsatisfactory, leading to a poor prognosis. Exosomes are a type of extracellular vesicle containing various components, which play an essential part in the development, progression, and metastasis of HCC. A large number of studies have demonstrated that exosomes could serve as novel biomarkers for the diagnosis of HCC. These diagnostic components mainly include proteins, microRNAs, long noncoding RNAs, and circular RNAs. The exosome biomarkers showed high sensitivity and high specificity in distinguishing HCC from health controls and other liver diseases, such as chronic HBV and liver cirrhosis. The expression of these biomarkers also exhibits correlations with various clinical factors such as tumor size, TMN stage, overall survival, and recurrence rate. In this review, we summarize the function of exosomes in the development of HCC and highlight their application as HCC biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis prediction.
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These authors contributed equally to this work.
ISSN:1999-4923
1999-4923
DOI:10.3390/pharmaceutics15092365