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ReviewFrontiers in oncology2025

CircRNAs in colorectal cancer: potential roles, clinical applications, and natural product-based regulation.

Jingjing Yang, Qiqi Fan, Yiyun Wang, Yuanyue Liu, Xiaoning Xu, Yeqi Liang, Jiakang Xie, Jiajie Li, Fengting Ai, Yong Cao and 2 more

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Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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  3. Target, silence, replace: a review on RNA-based drugs in modern medicine.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026
    Review
  4. Article
  5. Overexpression of CircularInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Jingjing Yang *Central Laboratory, Affiliated Jiangmen Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Hospital of Ji'nan University, Jiangmen, China.
Qiqi Fan *Central Laboratory, Affiliated Jiangmen Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Hospital of Ji'nan University, Jiangmen, China.
Yiyun WangScience and Technology Innovation Center, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
Yuanyue LiuDepartment of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China.
Xiaoning XuSchool of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ji'nan University, Guangzhou, China.
Yeqi LiangSchool of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ji'nan University, Guangzhou, China.
Jiakang XieSchool of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ji'nan University, Guangzhou, China.
Jiajie LiSchool of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ji'nan University, Guangzhou, China.
Fengting AiSchool of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ji'nan University, Guangzhou, China.
Yong CaoSchool of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ji'nan University, Guangzhou, China.
Shangzhen YuCentral Laboratory, Affiliated Jiangmen Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Hospital of Ji'nan University, Jiangmen, China.
Jinman LiuCentral Laboratory, Affiliated Jiangmen Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Hospital of Ji'nan University, Jiangmen, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide. In recent years, circular RNAs (circRNAs), a novel class of non-coding RNA molecules, have emerged as a research focus due to their unique stability and functional roles. CircRNAs regulate tumor-related signaling pathways through interactions with microRNAs (miRNAs) and proteins, playing key roles in tumorigenesis, progression, invasion, metastasis, and chemoresistance. This review summarizes the role of circRNAs in CRC, particularly their mechanisms in cell proliferation, migration, apoptosis, tumor microenvironment (TME) remodeling, and immune evasion. Aberrant expression of circRNAs holds great potential as diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers as well as therapeutic targets for CRC. Additionally, natural products such as flavonoids and glycosides, by modulating circRNA-miRNA-mRNA networks, offer promising therapeutic strategies. The article also discusses the current technical challenges in circRNA research and its future application prospects in CRC, highlighting the need for further investigation into the role of circRNAs in tumor immune microenvironments and drug resistance mechanisms.

Indexed as

biological functioncircular RNAs (circRNAs)colorectal cancer (CRC)natural product-based regulationpotential therapeutic biomarkersprognostic biomarkers

Identifiers

PMID39944836
PMCPMC11813906

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