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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY
Volume 41, Issue 6, Pages 1985-1995Publisher
SPANDIDOS PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.3892/ijo.2012.1673
Keywords
epithelial-mesenchymal transition; Brachyury; squamous cell carcinoma; metastasis; lymph nodes
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan [23390465]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23390465] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The prognosis of patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is influenced by the presence of lymph node metastasis. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), a process that involves events that convert adherent epithelial cells into individual migratory cells that can invade the extracellular matrix, is critical for cancer progression. Recently, the T-box transcription factor Brachyury was reported to promote EMT in human carcinoma cell lines. We analyzed the relationship between EMT (assessed by staining for E-cadherin and Vimentin) and the expression of Brachyury in association with lymph node metastasis in oral SCC. Oral SCC biopsy specimens (152 cases) were examined immunohistochemically for the expression of E-cadherin, Vimentin and Brachyury. Expression of Brachyury was correlated with EMT (p=0.035) and was significantly associated with lymph node and distant metastasis (p<0.05). Logistic regression analysis showed that Brachyury and EMT were predictive factors for lymph node metastasis (odds ratio 4.390 and 5.936, respectively) and that EMT was a predictive factor for distant metastases (odds ratio 11.786). Our findings present clinical evidence for an important role of Brachyury in EMT in oral SCC, and suggest that Brachyury and EMT patterns are useful prognostic markers.
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