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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 95-98Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2011.04.032
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SLC22A18; Expression; Glioma; Immunohistochemical analysis; Prognosis
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- Natural Science Foundation of China [30901535]
- Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine [10XHJT01]
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University of School of Medicine [10XBR01]
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We investigated the expression of the putative tumor suppressor SLC22A18 to evaluate it as a prognostic marker in glioma patients. Immunohistochemical and Western blot analyses of clinical tissue samples obtained from 120 patients with glioma were performed. Low expression of SLC22A18 was observed in 71.7% of patients. Loss of SLC22A18 expression in glioma was significantly related to pathological grade (p = 0.003). High pathological grade (World Health Organization III-IV) was correlated with negative (low or absent) expression of SLC22A18, which was correlated with a significantly shorter overall patient survival than in those with positive (high) expression (p = 0.007). Multivariate Cox regression analysis indicated that SLC22A18 expression level is an independent survival prognostic factor for patients with glioma (p = 0.011). Western blotting analysis confirmed decreased expression of SLC22A18 in glioma tissues compared with adjacent brain tissues. This study suggests that SLC22A18 functions as a tumor suppressor in glioma and represents a candidate biomarker for long-term survival in this disease. Crown Copyright (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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