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Resistin plays a role in the growth, proliferation, angiogenesis, metastasis and therapeutic resistance in different cancers. However, such effects of resistin have never been evaluated in ovarian cancer, a deadly gynecological malignancy. We observed a significant induction of ovarian cancer cells’ growth, invasion and cisplatin resistance, and established a mechanism of resistin action that included induction of EMT and stemness, as evidenced by down-regulated epithelial marker e-cadherin and up-regulated mesenchymal markers vimentin/ ZEB1 and stemness markers sox2, oct4 and nanog. The mechanism also included suppression of tumor suppressor miRNAs, let-7a, miR-200c and miR-186. Over-expression of these miRNAs significantly reversed the resistin-mediated effects on invasion and chemoresistance. We further validated our results  in vivo  where resistin administration significantly enhanced tumor growth in mice. Our results provide first evidence for such oncogenic effects of resistin in ovarian cancer models and a rationale for future studies to further understand the mechanistic role of resistin in ovarian cancer invasiveness, metastasis and therapy resistance.

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Novel oncogenic and chemoresistance-inducing functions of resistin in ovarian cancer cells require miRNAs-mediated induction of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition