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CANCER LETTERS
Volume 172, Issue 1, Pages 37-42Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3835(01)00633-4
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periostin; chemiluminescence; thymoma; invasive thymoma
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Periostin protein shares structural and sequence homology with fasciclin 1, which is an insect adhesion molecule. Periostin has a typical signal peptide at the N-terminal end suggesting it is a secreted protein. Recently, we developed a novel sandwich chemiluminescence assay to determine serum concentrations of periostin. We investigated the serum periostin level in thymoma patients. and attempted to determine the correlation between serum periostin level and clinicopathological factors of thymoma patients who had undergone surgery between January 1994 and July 1996. Serum periostin levels were not significantly different between the thymoma patients (1264.4 +/- 122.9 ng/ml) and the normal control (962.0 +/- 118.6 ng/ml) (P = 0.0877). There was no relationship between serum periostin level and age, gender or pathological subtype. However the serum periostin level of stage IV patients (1497.0 +/- 285.8 ng/ml) was significantly higher than normal control (P = 0.0460). These data suggest that serum periostin level may indicate tumor invasion and progression of thymoma. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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