Wei-Min Chang

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Taipei Medical University

Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) remains a formidable challenge due to its high recurrence rates and poor prognosis. This study focuses on miR-876, a microRNA significantly associated with OSCC recurrence and clinical outcomes. Analysis of miRNA expression profiles from recurrent OSCC patients revealed that miR-876-5p is markedly upregulated in...

Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is an immune-cold tumor characterized by an immunosuppressive microenvironment with low cytotoxic activity to eliminate tumor cells. Tumor escape is one of the initial steps in cancer development. Understanding the underlying mechanisms of cancer escape can help researchers develop new treatment strategies. In th...

Oral cancer is an immune cold tumor characterized by an immunosuppressive microenvironment with low cytotoxic activity to eliminate tumor cells. Tumor escape is one of the initial steps in cancer development. Understanding the underlying mechanisms of cancer escape can help researchers develop new treatment strategies. In this study, we found that...

Cancer recurrence and metastasis are the primary reasons for treatment failure in late-stage oral cancer. Cancer stem cells are the root of cancer recurrence and metastasis. By using the microRNAome analysis of Taiwan OSCC cohort, we found miR-876-3p was highly correlated to OSCC recurrence. The precursor miR-876 promoted in vitro OSCC cell prolife...

The emerging advances in cancer therapies have changed the landscape for the treatment, but there are limited treatments options for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Cancer stem cell-induced chemoresistance and tumor metastasis accounts for treatment failure and recurrence in NSCLC. Additionally, the up-regulated glycosaminoglycan-chond...

Aberrant metabolism has been proposed as one of the emerging hallmarks of cancer. However, the interplay between metabolic disorders and cancer metastasis remains to be defined. To explore the sophisticated metabolic processes during metastatic progression, we analyzed differentially expressed metabolic genes during the epithelial-mesenchymal trans...

Purpose Current treatment options for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) are limited, especially for cases with cancer stem cell-induced chemoresistance and recurrence. The WNT signaling pathway contributes to maintenance of stemness via translocation of β-catenin into the nucleus, and represents a promising druggable target in HNSCC. De...

Escaping of immune surveillance is essential for tumor metastasis. Recently, intratumoral metal ionic balance plays an important role in controlling cancer immune checkpoint protein expression and tumor immune escape. Copper (Cu) promotes the expression of PD-L1. In contrast to Cu, heme biosynthesis disturbs PD-L1 expression. Heme protein is a kind...

Pulmonary metastasis occurring via the colonization of circulating cancer stem cells is a major cause of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC)-related death. Thus, understanding the mechanism of OSCC pulmonary metastasis may provide a new opportunity for OSCC treatment. FAS, a well-known apoptosis-inducing death receptor, has multiple nonapoptotic, p...

Simple Summary The hypoxic inducible factor 1A (HIF1A) pathway has been known to play an important role in tumor progression in various cancers, including lower-grade (Grade II/III) gliomas (LGGs). An in silico analysis using 34 genes associated with the activity of the HIF1A pathway demonstrated that the BICD cargo adaptor 1 (BICD1) gene is a pote...

Non‐small‐cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for one of the most deadly cancers due to metastasis after therapy. Cancer metastasis usually results from epithelial‐to‐mesenchymal transition (EMT), and metabolic disorder is a key mediator of lung cancer EMT. The linkage between metabolic disorder and NSCLC EMT is still unclear. Using in silico analysi...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) has become the third most common cause of cancer-related deaths. CRC occurs because of abnormal growth of cells that can invade other tissues and cause distant metastases. Researchers have suggested that aberrant microRNA (miRNA) expression is involved in the initiation and progression of cancers. However, the key miRNAs tha...

Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is the most common malignant tumor of the oral cavity, and long non-coding (lnc)RNA of metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (MALAT1) was recently reported to play a crucial role in OSCC development and progression. However, potential effects of genetic variants of MALAT1 on the development of OS...

MicroRNAs are small non-coding RNAs known to negative regulate endogenous genes. Some microRNAs have high sequence conservation and localize as clusters in the genome. Their coordination is regulated by simple genetic and epigenetic events mechanism. In cells, single microRNAs can regulate multiple genes and microRNA clusters contain multiple micro...

Radiotherapy is commonly used to treat oral cancer patients in the current clinics; however, a subpopulation of patients shows poor radiosensitivity. Therefore, the aim of this study is to identify a biomarker or druggable target to enhance the effectiveness of radiotherapy on oral cancer patients. By performing an in silico analysis against public...

Although new generations of EGFR-tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKI) have been developed for the treatment of patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with EGFR-mutant tumors, TKI resistance often returns as a result of additional EGFR mutations. In addition to seeking for next-generation EGFR-TKI, developing novel EGFR-targeting strategi...

Background A number of microRNAs (miRNAs) have been demonstrated to be correlated with the diagnosis, progression and prognosis of colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the key miRNAs and the associated signaling pathways that regulate the growth and metastasis of CRC remain unclear. Methods miRNA array was analyzed in CRC CT26 cell-transplanted BALB/...

Background A number of microRNAs (miRNAs) have been demonstrated to be correlated with the diagnosis, progression and prognosis of colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the key miRNAs and the associated signaling pathways that regulate the growth and metastasis of CRC remain unclear. Methods The circulating miRNAs from BALB/c mice with CRC CT26 cell i...

Protein glycosylation is the common post‐translational modification in the mammalian cells. More than half proteins have their own glycosylation which increasing the protein diversity and complexity or maintaining protein stability. N ‐glycosylation is a quality control marker of protein folding. Aberrant n ‐glycosylation usually cause unfolding pr...

Modern life is full of artificial light in day and night. Smart phones, laptops, televisions, and high definition monitors provide unnatural human light source into human eye and cause ocular defects in modern human being. Understanding the molecular mechanism of the interplay between artificial light and ocular cells may help researcher society un...

Background: A number of microRNAs (miRNAs) have been demonstrated to be associated with the diagnosis, progression and prognosis of colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the function of miRNA-762 (miR-762) in CRC remains unclear, and the molecular mechanisms underlying the effects of miR‑762 in CRC require further investigation. Methods: The circulatin...

Background: Cisplatin is the first-line chemotherapy used against most upper aerodigestive tract carcinomas. In head and neck cancer, sensitivity to cisplatin remains the key issue in treatment response and outcome. Genetic heterogeneity and aberrant gene expression may be the intrinsic factors that cause primary cisplatin-resistance. Methods: C...

Up to 80% of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) distance metastasis is occurring in lung through seeding of circulating cancer stem cells. It is crucial to understand the genes that are involved in HNSCC pulmonary colonization which may provide an important therapy niche in treating HNSCC patients successfully. Here, we found the FAS rec...

Non‐small‐cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is one of the most lethal cancers, for it often develops metastasis after therapy. Cancer metastasis usually begins from epithelial‐to‐mesenchymal transition (EMT), and metabolic disorder is a key mediator of lung cancer EMT. The linkage between metabolic disorder and NSCLC EMT is still unclear. Here, we compared...

Parathyroid Hormone‐related Protein (PTHrP) is a paracrine/autocrine ligand and up‐regulated in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) patients. However, the regulatory mechanism and cellular function in HNSCC cancer remains obscure. We investigated the clinical significance of PTHrP in HNSCC patients, and verified the regulation mechanism i...

Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) represents a major health concern worldwide. We applied the matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) imaging mass spectrometry (IMS) to analyze paired normal (N) and tumor (T) samples from head and neck squamous cell carcinoma as well as liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (LC...

Altered expression of the Fas ligand (FasL)/Fas ratio exhibits a direct impact on the prognosis of cancer patients and its impairment in cancer cells may lead to apoptosis resistance. Thus, the development of effective therapies targeting the FasL/Fas system may play an important role in the fight against cancer. In this study, we evaluated whether...

Parathyroid Hormone-Like Hormone (PTHLH) is an autocrine/paracrine ligand that is up-regulated in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). However, the cellular function and regulatory mechanism in HNSCC remains obscure. We investigated the clinical significance of PTHLH in HNSCC patients, and verified the role of RUNX2/PTHLH axis, which is s...

Epigenetic correlates of head and neck cancer may illuminate its pathogenic roots. Through a gene set enrichment analysis, we found that the oncogenic transcription factor RUNX2 is widely upregulated in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) with lymph node metastasis, where it also predicts poor prognosis in HNSCC patients. Enforced express...

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Suppressor of cytokine signaling (SOCS) proteins are negative feedback regulators of the Janus kinase/signal transducer and activator of transcription (JAK/STAT) pathway. Dysregulation of SOCS protein expression in cancers can be one of the mechanisms that maintain STAT activation, but this mechanism is still poorly understood in oral squamous cell...

Aberrant microRNA expression is a common phenotype in cancer cell progression. MicroRNA is the negative regulator of hundred to thousand gene expressions. Here we report chr14q32.2 miRNA cluster significantly down‐regulated in clinical OSCC samples. 19 miRNAs were found with coordinated silencing in OSCC patients. However, their specific target and...

MicroRNA (miRNA) dysregulation contributes widely to human cancer but has not been fully assessed in oral cancers. In this study, we conducted a global microarray analysis of miRNA expression in 40 pairs of betel quid-associated oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) specimens and their matched non-tumorous epithelial counterparts. Eighty-four miRNAs...

Aberrant microRNAs (miRNAs) expressions are often happened in cancer. In order to identify miRNAs altered in oral carcinogenesis, we investigated miRNAs and cDNA expression profiles in 40 pair-wise oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) specimens. Eighty-four miRNAs were differentially expressed in the OSCC specimens compared to the matched tissue. In...

Norcantharidin (NCTD) is a small-molecule metastasis inhibitor without renal toxicity derived from a renal toxic compound cantharidin, which is found in blister beetles (Mylabris phalerata Pall.), commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine. The anti-metastatic capacity of NCTD is apparently through the downexpression of matrix metalloproteinase-...

Cirsium arisanense Kitamura (Compositae) has been used for hundreds of years in Taiwan as a folk medicine for hepatoprotection. However, no scientific research has demonstrated this effect. In the present study, we extracted the phenol-containing aqueous components of C. arisanense roots (CaR) and leaves/stem (CaL), and then assessed their hepatopr...