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EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
卷 236, 期 11, 页码 1247-1253出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1258/ebm.2011.011124
关键词
biglycan; gastric cancer; prognosis; tumor aggressiveness
资金
- National High Technology Research and Development Program (863 program) of China [2007AA022003]
- Fundamental Key Science Foundation of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality [09JC1412400, 10411967300]
- Public Scientific Research Platform of Hospitals of Grade A at the Tertiary Level of Shanghai [SHDC12007704]
- Natural Science Foundation of the Shanghai Municipality [07ZR14064]
Biglycan, a member of the small leucine-rich proteoglycan family, has been implicated in the development and progression of human cancers. However, the clinical significance of biglycan expression in gastric cancer has not been determined. In the present study, biglycan mRNA and protein concentrations were analyzed using quantitative realtime reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and Western blot in 69 gastric cancer and adjacent non-tumorous tissues, respectively. Biglycan expression was further assessed using immunohistochemistry in tissue microarrays that contained 264 cases of gastric cancer, and others containing normal or metastasized lymph node tumor tissues. Biglycan was upregulated at the transcriptional and translational levels and there was a correlation between the expression of biglycan mRNA and protein (P = 0.000, kappa = 0.769). Over-expression of biglycan was strongly associated with lymph node metastasis, tumor (T) classification, metastasis (M) classification, vascular invasion and Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) stage. Patients with biglycan-positive tumors had a significantly higher disease recurrence rate and poorer survival than patients with biglycan-negative tumors after the radical surgery. Multivariate analysis revealed that biglycan expression is an independent prognostic indicator for survival of patients with gastric cancer. The data from the current study demonstrate that elevated expression of biglycan may play an important role in the development and progression of gastric cancer, and could be further evaluated as a biomarker for predication of a poor clinical outcome.
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