NEAT1 and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: To further investigate the molecular mechanism by which NEAT1 and miR-129 exerted their regulatory role in ESCC, bioinformatic-based target prediction analysis by TargetScan (http://www.targetscan.org) and miRanda (http://www.microrna.org) was performed to explore the potential targets of miR-129 in ESCC cells.