Expression of CtBP1, Zeb1, Zeb2 and E-cadherin in cholangiocarcinoma and their clinical significance / 临床与实验病理学杂志

Purpose To investigate the expression of transcriptional suppressor CtBP1,Zeb1,Zeb2 and their target gene E-cadherin,and their significance in cholangiocarcinoma.Methods The expression of CtBP1,Zeb1,Zeb2 and E-cadherin proteins in cholangiocarcinoma and the paired non-neoplastic tissue array were detected by the immunohistohemical staining.Results The positive rates of CtBP1 expression in cholangiocarcinoma and the paired non-neoplastic tissue were 44.44％ and 17.86％,these of Zeb2 were 34.92％ and 10.71％,and these of E-cadherin were 50.79％ and 100％,respectively.The differences between the groups were statistically significant (all P ＜ 0.05).There was only one case with expression of Zeb1 in cholangiocarcinoma,but no expression in the paired non-neoplastic tissue.CtBP1 was correlated with the degree of differentiation of cholangiocarcinoma (P ＜ 0.05).Ecadherin was related to the differentiation degree,and distant metastasis of cholangiocarcinoma (all P ＜ 0.05).The E-cadherin expression was negatively correlated with CtBP1 and Zeb2 (r =-0.034,-0.029,all P ＜ 0.05).The Zeb2 expression was positively correlated with CtBP1 (r =0.228,P =0.005).Conclusion CtBP1,Zeb2 and E-cadherin express abnormally in cholangiocarcinoma.CtBP1,Zeb2 may be involved in the regulation of E-cadherin expression.Joint detection of CtBP1 and Ecadherin is expected to be a reference index to evaluate the malignant biological behavior of cholangiocarcinoma.

Expression of FOXC1 and its relationship with E-cadherin in nasopharyngeal carcinoma tissues / 临床耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志

OBJECTIVE@#To investigate the significance and relationship between the expression of FOXC1 and clinicopathological features, and to explore its correlation with E-cadherin.@*METHOD@#Immunohistochemical SP method was used to detected the expression of FOXC1 in nasopharyngeal carcinoma tissues and nasopharyngitis tissues.@*RESULT@#(1) Immunoreaction to FOXC1 was mainly located in nucleus of nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells. The positive expression rate of FOXC1 in nasopharyngeal carcinoma tissues was 85.3% (81/95), which was significantly higher than that in nasopharyngitis tissues (59.4%) (P 0.05). (3) There was a correlation between the expression of FOXC1 and down-regulated expression of E-cadherin in nasopharyngeal carcinoma tissues (P < 0.05).@*CONCLUSION@#FOXC1 may play an important role in generation and progression of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, there may be a correlation between the expression of FOXC1 and down-regulated expression of E-cadherin, also FOXC1 may play an important role in the process of EMT in nasopharyngeal carcinoma by regulating E-cadherin.

Inhibition of tumor growth by intramuscular administration of the canstatin gene delivered by electroporation / 中国医师杂志

Objective To construct human canstatin gene eukaryotic expression vector and investigate the therapeutic effect of intramuscular canstatin gene delivered by electroporation on tumor growth.Methods Canstatin cDNA was amplified from total RNA extracted from fresh fetal liver by reversing transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).The canstatin cDNA fragment was in serted into pEGFP-N1 eukaryotic expression vector.The recombination plasmid was delivered to the quadriceps of the mice with Lewis lung carcinomas by electroporation intramuscular.Fluorescence intension measured by fluorescence microscope,reverse-PCR assay,and immunohistochemistry assay were performed to detect the expression of canstatin gene in the muscle and in circulation.The tumor weight and volume were used to detect the biological effects of canstatin gene delivery.Results Recombinant eukaryotic expression vector of recombinant human canstatin was successfully constructed.The canstatin mRNA was significantly increased in the skeletal muscle and intramuscular delivery of canatatin gene by electroporation acquired the expression of enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP)/canstatin protein in the circulation and significantly inhibited tumor growth.The percent of the inhibition of tumor weight was 57.7 ％.Conclusions Electroporation mediated gene transfer efficiency in skeletal muscle was compared to simple plasmid injection and lasted for a long time.It was an efficient and safe,convenient and economic,gene transfer methods and might have certain clinical application value.Electroporation mediated canstatin gene transfer in skeletal muscle had obvious inhibitory effect on Lewis lung cancer in mice subcutaneous xenograft tumor growth.

Effect of gallnut extract on nasopharyngeal carcinoma 5-8F cells and its mechanism / 中南大学学报(医学版)

OBJECTIVE@#To determine the biological activity of ellagic acid extracted from gallnut against nasopharyngeal carcinoma and its molecular mechanism.@*METHODS@#Nasopharyngeal carcinoma 5-8F cells were treated with 2, 4, 6 μg/mL ellagic acid for 48 h in vitro. The cell proliferation and cell apoptosis were analyzed by MTT and Hoechst33258 stain. The cell cycle and protein expression were measured by flow cytometry and Western blot.@*RESULTS@#Ellagic acid inhibited the proliferation of 5-8F cells. The inhibition rates were (29.35±4.95)%, (53.32 ±4.44)% and ( 61.75 + 6.93)%, respectively, with significant difference from the control group (P<0.01). S phase cells in the experimental groups were (25.47±0.74)%, (28.08±1.41)% and (35.49±0.66)%, respectively, with significant difference (P<0.01) from the control group (21.26±0.70)%. Cells in the experimental groups showed nuclear pyknosis, karyorrhexis and poptotic cell morphology. The expression of COX-2 and stathmin in 5-8F cells was down-regulated with increased drug concentration.@*CONCLUSION@#Ellagic acid extracted from gallnut has activity against nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells, and its mechanism may be related to down-regulated expression of COX-2 and stathmin.

Neuropathological characters of delayed cortical infarcts after transient unilateral brain ischemia in Mongolian gerbils / 中华神经科杂志

Objective To investigate the distribution of eosinphililic neurons ( ENs),reactive astrocytes ( RAs),and infarction after transient cerebal ischemia,and the time profile of pathomorphological changes.Methods Unilateral forebrain ischemia was induced in Mongolian gerbils by two 10 minutes unilateral common carotid artery occlusions with a 5 hours interval.Laser Doppler flowmetry was used to detect intra-ischemic anterior cortex blood flow.Animals were sacrificed at 24 hours,4 days,2 weeks,4 weeks,16 weeks and the brain were prepared for pathomorphological assay.Results Intra-ischemic laser Doppler flowmetry show significant ischemia during carotid artery occlusion:22.1％ ± 9.5％,26.3％ ± 4.9％,37.5％ ± 3.5％,F =67.219,P ＜ 0.01 ; the decrease was significantly greater in the anterior cortex.ENs appeared in middle and deep layers at 24 hours postischemia,and ENs area extend to all layers of cortex by 4 days.Large areas of high EN density ( ≥80/mm2) evolved to infarcts between 4 days and 4 weeks.Posterior cortex evolved to low EN area ( ＜ 80/mm2) without transformation into infarcts.RAs were consistently distributed in areas with ENs,and RA areas with high EN density were largely transformed into infarcts between 4 days and 4 weeks. Delayed astrocytic death took place in the RA areas with high EN density.Conclusion Density of ENs is an important indicator of delayed astrocytic death and infarction in postischemic tissue.

Effect of Epstein-Barr virus latent membrane protein 1 on oncomiRs expression profile in nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell line CNE1 / 中国病理生理杂志

AIM: To investigate the differential expression profile between nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell line CNE1 and its steady EBV-LMP1-transfected cell line CNE1-LMP1, and to explore the regulatory effect of LMP1 on oncomiRs expression in CNE1 cell line. METHODS: A microRNA array that targets 132 of the most well studied oncomiRs was used to detect the expression profile of CNE1 and CNE1-LMP1. qRT-PCR assay were used to verify the expression data detected by microarray. RESULTS: Among the restricted 132 miRNAs, 30 were detectable. Among which, 30 were expressed in CNE1-LMP1, 19 in CNE1 and 11 were specifically expressed in CNE1-LMP1. Among the 19 shared miRNAs, the expression level of 6 miRNAs (hsa-miR-19b, hsa-miR-17-3p, hsa-miR-22, hsa-miR-149, hsa-miR-150 and hsa-miR-188) elevated over two folds in CNE1-LMP1. No decrease in miRNA expression more than two folds was observed. qRT-PCR confirmed the expression difference of these six miRNAs (P<0.01). Among the 11 specifically expressed miRNAs in CNE1-LMP1, hsa-miR-122a showed the highest expression level surpassing the internal control sample. CONCLUSION: Our data suggest that LMP1 may play an important role in regulating the expression of miRNAs in tumor, which may be another important pathway employed by LMP1 in the development of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Cloning and analysis of a novel human CD44 variant / 中国病理生理杂志

AIM: To detect unknown CD44 variants(CD44v) in nasopharyngeal cancer by using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction(RT-PCR) to analyze the expression of cell adhesion protein CD44 gene in nasopharyngeal cancer tissue and cell lines.METHODS: Specific primers at up start code,down terminal code of CD44 and primers at the middle,splicing points of variable splicing exon v10 of CD44 were designed.cDNA of nasopharyngeal cancer tissues,5-8F and HNE1 cell lines were analyzed by RT-PCR.Products of RT-PCR were sequenced and further analyzed by bioinformatics.RESULTS: The new CD44v sequence possessed 1634 bp with a completed open reading frame.The start code was at 12 bp site and terminal code at 1301bp site.It was predicted to code 429 amino acids,and only variable splicing exon 10 existed in the flexible region.It was given an accessible number EF581837 by GenBank.CONCLUSION: A new CD44 variant predicted to code 429 amino acids exists in the studied nasopharyngeal cancer tissues and cell lines.