Lien Bekaert

Dr. Lien Bekaert


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Academic Career Length

10Years (2017-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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18 March 2017 in European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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LBLien Bekaert
Lien Bekaert
SVSamuel Valable
Samuel Valable
ELEmmanuèle Lechapt-Zalcman
Emmanuèle Lechapt-Zalcman
KPKeven Ponte
Keven Ponte
SCSolène Collet
Solène Collet
JGJean-Sébastien Guillamo
Jean-Sébastien Guillamo

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GLGuénaëlle Levallet
Guénaëlle Levallet
FDFatéméh Dubois
Fatéméh Dubois
ALArthur Leclerc
Arthur Leclerc
EPEdwige PETIT
Edwige PETIT
LBLien Bekaert
Lien Bekaert
ELemmanuele lechapt
emmanuele lechapt
IDH (isocitrate dehydrogenase) mutation, hypoxia, and neo-angiogenesis, three hallmarks of diffuse gliomas, modulate the expression of small non-coding RNAs (miRNA). In this paper, we tested whether pro-angiogenic and/or pro-hypoxic miRNAs could be used to monitor patients with glioma. The miRNAs were extracted from tumoral surgical specimens embedded in the paraffin of 97 patients with diffuse gliomas and, for 7 patients, from a blood sample too. The expression of 10 pro-angiogenic and/or pro-hypoxic miRNAs was assayed by qRT-PCR and normalized to the miRNA expression of non-tumoral brain tissues. We confirmed in vitro that IDH in hypoxia (1% O2, 24 h) alters pro-angiogenic and/or pro-hypoxic miRNA expression in HBT-14 (U-87 MG) cells. Then, we reported that the expression of these miRNAs is (i) strongly affected in patients with glioma compared to that in a non-tumoral brain; (ii) correlated with the histology/grade of glioma according to the 2016 WHO classification; and (iii) predicts the overall and/or progression-free survival of patients with glioma in univariate but not in a multivariate analysis after adjusting for sex, age at diagnosis, and WHO classification. Finally, the expression of miRNAs was found to be the same between the plasma and glial tumor of the same patient. This study highlights a panel of seven pro-angiogenic and/or pro-hypoxic miRNAs as a potential tool for monitoring patients with glioma.