Journal
ONCOTARGET
Volume 6, Issue 11, Pages 9313-9326Publisher
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.3220
Keywords
ovarian cancer; CD44; tissue microarray; Pgp; paclitaxel
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- Gattegno fund
- Wechsler fund
- Sarcoma Foundation of America (SFA) a pilot grant from Sarcoma SPORE/NIH
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)/National Institutes of Health (NIH) [UO1, CA 151452]
- China Scholarship Council
- Excellent Doctorial Dissertations Grant of Zhengzhou University
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The clinical significance of Cluster of Differentiation 44 (CD44) remains controversial in human ovarian cancer. The aim of this study is to evaluate the clinical significance of CD44 expression by using a unique tissue microarray, and then to determine the biological functions of CD44 in ovarian cancer. In this study, a unique ovarian cancer tissue microarray (TMA) was constructed with paired primary, metastatic, and recurrent tumor tissues from 26 individual patients. CD44 expression in TMA was assessed by immunohistochemistry. Both the metastatic and recurrent ovarian cancer tissues expressed higher level of CD44 than the patient-matched primary tumor. A significant association has been shown between CD44 expression and both the disease free survival and overall survival. A strong increase of CD44 was found in the tumor recurrence of mouse model. Finally, when CD44 was knocked down, proliferation, migration/invasion activity, and spheroid formation were significantly suppressed, while drug sensitivity was enhanced. Thus, up-regulation of CD44 represents a crucial event in the development of metastasis, recurrence, and drug resistance to current treatments in ovarian cancer. Developing strategies to target CD44 may prevent metastasis, recurrence, and drug resistance in ovarian cancer.
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