Table 2.

Main characteristics of the articles selected and revised for miR-145.

Author, Year, Place	Expression	Prostate Cancer Patients (n)	Negative Control (n)	Samples Type	Reference
Leite, 2011, Brazil	Downregulation	49	10	Tissue	[27]
Shen, 2012, USA	Upregulation	82		Plasma	[29]
Wach, 2012, Germany	Downregulation	76		Tissue	[26]
Avgeris, 2013, Greece	Downregulation	73	64	Tissue	[25]
Leite, 2013, Brazil	Downregulation	63		Tissue	[17]
Hart, 2013, Germany Karatas, 2014, Turkey, USA	Downregulation	40	40	Tissue	[1]
	Downregulation	82		Tissue	[28]
Larne, 2015, Sweden	Downregulation	49	25	Tissue	[31]
Wang, 2015, USA	Downregulation	35		Tissue	[32]
Zhu, 2015, China	Downregulation	5		Cell lines	[34]
Coarfa, 2016, USA	Downregulation	113	28	Tissue	[38]
Goto, 2017, Japan	Downregulation	34	19	Tissue	[39]
Xu, 2017, China	Upregulation	60	24	Urine	[30]
Karadag, 2021, Turkey	Downregulation	18	18	Cell culture	[20]
Liu, 2021, China	Downregulation	18	18	Cell culture	[21]