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WORLD JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY
Volume 15, Issue 3, Pages 300-309Publisher
BAISHIDENG PUBLISHING GROUP INC
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.15.300
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Liver; Pathology; Alcoholism; Hepatitis C virus; Gene expression; Carcinogenesis
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- French Ministry for Research
- Ligue contre le Cance
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AIM: To search for transcription dysregulation that could (1) differentiate hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)-free from HCC-related cirrhosis (2) differentiate HCC-free cirrhosis related to HCV from that related to alcohol intake. METHODS: Using microarray analysis, we compared transcript levels in HCC-free cirrhosis (alcoholism: 7; hepatitis C: 7), HCC-associated cirrhosis (alcoholism: 10; hepatitis C: 10) and eight control livers. The identified transcripts were validated by qRT-PCR in an independent cohort of 45 samples (20 HCC-free cirrhosis; 15 HCC-associated cirrhosis and 10 control livers). We also confirmed our results by immunohistochemistry. RESULTS: In HCC-free livers, we identified 70 transcripts which differentiated between alcoholic-related cirrhosis, HCV-related cirrhosis and control livers. They mainly corresponded to down-regulation. Dysregulation of Signal Transduction and Activator of Transcription-3 (STAT-3) was found along with related changes in STAT-3 targets which occurred in an etiology-dependent fashion in HCC-free cirrhosis. In contrast, in HCC, such transcription dysregulations were not observed. CONCLUSION: We report that transcriptional dysregulations exist in HCC-free cirrhosis, are transiently observed prior to detectable HCC onset and may be appear like markers from cirrhosis to HCC transition. (C) 2009 The WJG Press and Baishideng. All rights reserved.
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