Table 1.

Expression profiling of miRNAs in HNSCC/OSCC.

Authors (year)	Altered expression of miRNAs		Materials/methods for miRNA expression profiling	Ref.
	Up	Down
Avissar et al.	miR-21	miR-375	HNSCC samples/	[34]
(2009)	miR-18a		Microarray
	miR-221		Quantitative RT-PCR
Cervigne et al.	miR-21		OSCC and leukoplakia samples/	[33]
(2009)	miR-181b		TaqMan low density arrays (TLDA)
	miR-345		Quantitative RT-PCR
Chang et al.	miR-211		OSCC samples/	[63]
(2008)			TaqMan MicroRNA Assay kit
Chang et al.	miR-21	miR-494	HNSCC samples and cell lines (JHU-011, JHU-012, FaDu, JHU-09)/	[31]
(2008)	let-7		Microarray
	miR-18		Quantitative RT-PCR
	miR-29c
	miR-142-3p
	miR-155
	miR-146b
Childs et al.	miR-21	miR-1	HNSCC samples/	[32]
(2009)		miR-133a	Microarray
		miR-205	Quantitative RT-PCR
		let-7d
Henson et al.		miR-125b	OSCC samples and cell lines (UPCI: SCC084, SCC078, SCC131, SCC040, SCC029, SCC032, SCC104, SCC142, SCC116, SCC066)/Quantitative PCR	[21]
(2009)		miR-100
Jiang et al.	miR-205		HNSCC cell lines (SCC17A, SCC17B, SCCD12, SCC10B, SCC5)/	[70]
(2005)			Real-time quantitative PCR
			Northern blotting
Kozaki et al.	miR-374	miR-27a	OSCC cell lines (Ca9-22, HO-1-N-1, HOC313, HOC815, HSC-2, HSC-3, HSC-4, HSC-5, HSC-6, HSC-7, KON, KOSC-2, NA, OM1, OM2, SKN3, TSU, ZA)/Real-time RT-PCR	[22]
(2008)	miR-340	miR-34b
	miR-224	miR-34c
	miR-10a	miR-203
	miR-140	miR-302c
	miR-181a	miR-23a
	miR-146a	miR-27b
	miR-126	miR-34a
	miR-31	miR-215
	miR-9	miR-299
	miR-9*	miR-330
		miR-337
		miR-107
		miR-133b
		miR-138
		miR-139
		miR-223
		miR-204
		miR-370
		let-7d
		miR-95
		miR-302a
		miR-367
		let-7g
		miR-23b
		miR-128a
		miR-148a
		miR-155
		miR-200c
		miR-302b
		miR-368
		miR-122a
		miR-371
		let-7a
		miR-26b
		miR-30e-5p
		miR-96
		miR-125a
		miR-132
		miR-200b
		miR-199b
		miR-296
		miR-373
		miR-137
		miR-197
		miR-193a
		let-7e
		miR-30d
		miR-331
		miR-342
		miR-338
		miR-199a
		miR-372
		miR-184
Li et al.	miR-21		Tongue squamous cell carcinoma samples/	[30]
(2009)			Microarray
			Quantitative reverse transcription-PCR
			Northern blotting
Park et al.		miR-125a	Saliva of oral squamous cell carcinoma patients/	[65]
(2009)		miR-200a	Reverse transcriptase-preamplification-quantitative PCR
Tran et al.	miR-21	miR-200c	Head and neck cancer cell lines (FaduD, HN6, HN13, UM-SCC9, UM-SCC47, UM-SCC10A, UM-SCC11A, TUM-SCC38, UMSCC4)/MicroarrayNorthern blotting	[35]
(2007)	miR-200a	miR-373
	miR-103	miR-345
	miR-19a	miR-382
	miR-361	miR-342
	miR-27a	miR-133b
	miR-US33-1	miR-373*
	miR-7b	miR-US25-2-5p
	miR-100	miR-346
	miR-125b	miR-212
	miR-28	miR-375
	miR-18	miR-328
	miR-22	miR-127
	miR-15a	miR-154
	miR-30b	miR-133a
	miR-320	miR-371
	miR-98	miR-302d
	miR-15b	miR-302c
	miR-200b	miR-302b
	miR-16	miR-449
	let-7f	miR-340
	miR-29a	miR-378
	let-7a
	miR-221
	let-7d
	miR-23a
	miR-31
	miR-107
	let-7c
	miR-29b
	miR-24
	miR-23b
	miR-205
Wong et al.	miR-184	miR-133a	Tongue squamous cell carcinoma samples/Quantitative reverse transcription-PCR of mature miRNAs	[42]
(2008)	miR-34c	miR-99a
	miR-137	miR-194
	miR-372	miR-133b
	miR-124a	miR-219
	miR-21	miR-100
	miR-124b	miR-125b
	miR-31	miR-26b
	miR-128a	miR-138
	miR-34b	miR-149
	miR-154	miR-195
	miR-197	miR-107
	miR-132	miR-139
	miR-147
	miR-325
	miR-181c
	miR-198
	miR-155
	miR-30a-3p
	miR-338
	miR-17-5p
	miR-104
	miR-134
	miR-213
Yu et al.	miR-21	miR-16	The animal model of oral squamous cell carcinoma (hamster)/Microarray	[62]
(2009)	miR-200b	miR-26a
	miR-221	miR-29
	miR-338	miR-124a
	miR-762	miR-125b
		miR-126-5p
		miR-143
		miR-145
		miR-148b
		miR-155
		miR-199a
		miR-203