Review Article
BMPs as Therapeutic Targets and Biomarkers in Astrocytic Glioma
Table 1
Clinical significance of BMP signaling pathway.
| Molecule | Expression data in high grade gliomas | No patients | Methods | Clinical significance | Authors | Reference |
| BMP2 | UP | 98 | IHQ | ↓BMP2: ↑survival time (tumor grade independent) | Liu et al. 2009 | [19] |
| BMP4 | DOWN | 630 | RTqPCR/WB/IHQ | ↓BMP4: ↓survival time (all grades together) |
Wu and Yao 2013 | [20] | DOWN | 220/77 | Microarray/IHQ | ↓BMP4: ↓survival time (grades III and IV) | Bao et al. 2013 | [21] |
| BMPRIB | DOWN | 64 | WB | n.d | Liu et al. 2009 | [19] |
| P-Smad 1,5,8 | DOWN | 64 | WB | ↓p-Smad: ↓survival time (tumor grade independent) | Liu et al. 2009 | [19] |
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Bao et al. [21] validated the data using Rembrandt database and GSE16011 microarray data. N.d.: not determined.
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