Table 2. miRNAs upregulation after the treatment with AZA.

	hsa-miR	HCT116	HT29	Expression in CRC	Functions	References
1	15b	1.43	2.29	↑	Cell cycle	Xi et al (2006)
2	96	1.58	2.3	↑	DNA repairs	Bandrés et al (2006); Sarver et al (2009)
3	99a	3.85	2.23	↑	Cell inhibition	Chen et al (2008)
4	106a	1.23	2.15	↓↑	NA	Díaz et al (2008); Link et al (2010)
5	129	2.6	2.56	↓	Cell death	Bandres et al (2009); Huang et al (2009)
6	135b	1.75	2.02	↑	DNA repairs	Wang et al (2010)
7	146	1.09	2.63	↓↑	Anti metastatic	Hurst et al (2009); Slattery et al (2011)
8	148a	1.05	3.96	↓	Methylation	Lujambio et al (2008); Chen et al (2010)
9	181c	3.62	1.94	↓	Oncogenic suppresion	Hashimoto et al (2010)
10	219	1.31	3.41	↑	NA	Schetter et al (2008)
11	338	1.85	2.47	NA	NA	NA
12	34b/c	2.8	3.1	↓	Cell cycle and apoptosis	Toyota et al (2008)

Abbreviations: AZA=5-aza-2′-deoxycytidine; CRC=colorectal cancer; miRNAs=microRNAs; NA=data not available.