QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 300 Herston Road, Herston, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
UQ Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Herston, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Department of Urology, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.
Semin Cancer Biol. 2023 Feb;89:18-29. doi: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2023.01.003. Epub 2023 Jan 18.
Biofluid-based biomarker tests hold great promise for precision medicine in prostate cancer (PCa) clinical practice. Extracellular vesicles (EV) are established as intercellular messengers in cancer development with EV cargos, including protein and nucleic acids, having the potential to serve as biofluid-based biomarkers. Recent clinical studies have begun to evaluate EV-based biomarkers for PCa diagnosis, prognosis, and disease/therapy resistance monitoring. Promising results have led to PCa EV biomarker validation studies which are currently underway with the next challenge being translation to robust clinical assays. However, EV research studies generally use low throughput EV isolation methods and costly molecular profiling technologies that are not suitable for clinical assays. Here, we consider the technical hurdles in translating EV biomarker research findings into precise and cost-effective clinical biomarker assays. Novel microfluidic devices coupling EV extraction with sensitive antibody-based biomarker detection are already being explored for point-of-care applications for rapid provision in personalised medicine approaches.
基于生物流体的生物标志物检测在前列腺癌(PCa)临床实践中的精准医学中具有巨大的应用前景。细胞外囊泡(EV)被认为是癌症发展中的细胞间信使,EV 囊泡包含蛋白质和核酸等物质,具有作为基于生物流体的生物标志物的潜力。最近的临床研究已经开始评估基于 EV 的生物标志物在 PCa 诊断、预后和疾病/治疗耐药性监测中的应用。有前景的研究结果促使了针对 PCa EV 生物标志物的验证研究,目前正在进行中,下一个挑战是将其转化为稳健的临床检测方法。然而,EV 研究通常使用低通量的 EV 分离方法和昂贵的分子分析技术,这些方法并不适合临床检测。在这里,我们考虑了将 EV 生物标志物研究结果转化为精确且具有成本效益的临床生物标志物检测方法所面临的技术障碍。新型微流控装置将 EV 提取与敏感的基于抗体的生物标志物检测相结合,已经在用于即时护理应用的研究中得到探索,以在个性化医疗方法中快速提供服务。
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