Overexpression of miR-219 as a potential therapeutic strategy of glioblastoma cells in vitro

Maja Petrović, Simona Lapčević, Ivana Z Matić, Luka Bojić, Marina Nikitović, Tatjana Stanojković, Danijela Stanisavljević Ninković · 2026

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Petrović and colleagues boosted a small RNA molecule inside glioblastoma cells to test whether it can strengthen standard treatment for this brutal brain cancer. Median survival stays under fifteen months despite surgery, radiation, and the drug temozolomide. Their 2026 study raised levels of the molecule, miR-219, in tumor cells grown flat and as three-dimensional spheres, then combined it with radiation and the standard drug.

Extra miR-219 dialed down two target genes linked to tumor growth, REST and AKAP13, in the treated cells. Treated cells lost malignant behaviors, growing and invading less than untreated controls in the assays reported. Spheres of tumor cells also died more readily when miR-219 joined radiation or drug treatment. Petrović frames miR-219 replacement as a candidate add-on therapy, while stressing that all evidence so far comes from laboratory cultures.

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CREATORMaja Petrović, Simona Lapčević, Ivana Z Matić, Luka Bojić, Marina Nikitović, Tatjana Stanojković, Danijela Stanisavljević Ninković
YEAR2026
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE59 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13486710

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