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WORLD JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY
卷 14, 期 9, 页码 1339-1345出版社
W J G PRESS
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.14.1339
关键词
iron; hepcidin; colon; cancer; anaemia; mass spectrometry
资金
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBS/B/10781] Funding Source: researchfish
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBS/B/10781] Funding Source: Medline
AIM: To investigate whether the iron stores regulator hepcidin is implicated in colon cancer-associated anaemia and whether it might have a role in colorectal carcinogenesis. METHODS: Mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS and SELDI-TOF MS) was employed to measure hepcidin in urine collected from 56 patients with colorectal cancer. Quantitative Real Time RT-PCR was utilised to determine hepcidin mRNA expression in colorectal cancer tissue. Hepcidin cellular localisation was determined using immunohistochemistry. RESULTS: We demonstrate that whilst urinary hepcidin expression was not correlated with anaemia it was positively associated with increasing T-stage of colorectal cancer (P < 0.05). Furthermore, we report that hepcidin mRNA is expressed in 34% of colorectal cancer tissue specimens and was correlated with ferroportin repression. This was supported by hepcidin immunoreactivity in colorectal cancer tissue. CONCLUSION: We demonstrate that systemic hepcidin expression is unlikely to be the cause of the systemic anaemia associated with colorectal cancer. However, we demonstrate for the first time that hepcidin is expressed by colorectal cancer tissue and that this may represent a novel oncogenic signalling mechanism. (c) 2008 WJG. All rights reserved.
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