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WORLD JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY
卷 11, 期 21, 页码 3285-3289出版社
BAISHIDENG PUBLISHING GROUP INC
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v11.i21.3285
关键词
Clusterin; Colorectal tumorigenesis
资金
- Natural Science Foundation of China [30300401]
- Guangdong Natural Science Foundation [04009327]
- Leung Kwok Tze Foundation of Hong Kong, China
AIM: To investigate the expression pattern of clusterin in colorectal adenoma-carcinoma-metastasis series, and to explore the potential role of clusterin in multistage colorectal tumorigenesis and progression. METHODS: A colorectal carcinoma (CRC)-tissue microarray (TMA), which contained 85 advanced CRCs including 43 cases of Dukes B, 21 of Dukes C and 21 of Dukes D tumors, were used for assessing the expression of clusterin (clone 41D) and tumor cell apoptotic index (AI) by immunohistochemistry and TUNEL assay, respectively. Moreover the potential correlation of clusterin expression with the patient's clinical-pathological features were also examined. RESULTS: The positive staining of clusterin in different colorectal tissues was primarily a cytoplasmic pattern. Cytoplasmic overexpression of clusterin was detected in none of the normal colorectal mucosa, 17% of the adenomas, 46% of the primary CRCs, and 57% of the CRC metastatic lesions. In addition, a significant positive correlation between overexpression of clusterin and advanced clinical (Dukes) stage was observed (P<0.01). Overexpression of cytoplasmic clusterin in CRCs was inversely correlated with tumor apoptotic index (P<0.01), indicating the antiapoptotic function of cytoplasmic clusterin in CRCs. CONCLUSION: These data suggests that overexpression of cytoplasmic clusterin might be involved in the tumorigenesis and/or progression of CRCs. The anti-apoptotic function of cytoplasmic clusterin may be responsible, at least in part, for the development and biologically aggressive behavior of CRC. (C) 2005 The WJG Press and Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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