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Objective To explore the relationship between the expression of human telomerase RNA component (TERC) gene , human papilloma virus (HPV) infection and mutation of chromosome 3 number with cervical lesions .Methods 81 women received the treatment in the Gynecology Department of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University from June 2008 to February 2009 ,including the healthy group(normal pathological examination ,20 cases) ,CIN1 group(28 cases) ,CIN2 group(12 ca‐ses) ,CIN3 group(9 cases) and cervical cancer group(12 cases) .The TERC gene expression in uterine epithelial exfoliated cells was detected by using the fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) method ,meanwhile the HPV infection was detected by using the real time fluorescence quantitative polymerase chain reaction (FQPCR) technology .The correlation between cervical cancer with TERC gene and HPV was analyzed .At the same time the number of chromosome 3 mutations in 81 cases was recorded .Results In the cervical lesion detection ,the detection positive rate had no statistical difference between the TERC gene detection and HPV detec ‐tion (P> 0 .05) ,their positive rates in the CIN 1 ,CIN2 ,CIN3 and cervical cancer groups were significantly higher than that in the healthy group (P 0 .05) , while between the CIN3 group and the cervical cancer group had statistical significance (P< 0 .05) ,the higher the malignant degree , the higher the positive rate .The abnormal mutation rate of chromosome 3 number was 0% in the healthy group and the CIN1 group ,16 .7% in the CIN2 group ,66 .7% in the CIN3 group and 100 .0% in the cervical cancer group ,the positive rate in the CIN3 group and the cervical cancer group was significantly higher than that in the healthy group ,CIN1 group and CIN2 group ,the differ‐ences were statistically significant (P< 0 .05) .Conclusion The TERC abnormal gene expression ,high risk HPV infection and mutation of chromosome 3 number could play an important synergistic effect during the process of occurrence and progression of cervical cancer .
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Objective To evaluate the significance of human papillomavirus L1 capsid protein (HPVL1) and human telomerase RNA component (hTERC) gene in the cytologic specimens of cervix which was infected by the high-risk types of human papillomavirus (HR-HPV),and to expose their relationship with cervical lesions.Methods The fluorescence signal of cytologic samples of cervix were detected by interphase FISH in chromosome enumeration double-color DNA probes TERC.The expression of HPVL1 capsid protein was detected by MaxVision immunohistochemistry method.300 samples were analyzed with HR-HPV positive from the cervical biopsy.The diagnoses as normal or chronic inflammation (n =45),cervical intraepithelial lesions Ⅰ grade (CIN Ⅰ,n =95),CIN Ⅱ (n =58),CIN Ⅲ (n =64),and squamous cervical cancer (SCC,n =37).Results The percentage of HPVL1 positive rates in normal or chronic inflammation,CIN Ⅰ,CIN Ⅱ,CIN Ⅲ and SCC groups were 58.70 ％ (27/46),63.16 ％ (60/95),37.93 ％ (22/58),10.94 ％ (7/64) and 0 (0/37),respectively.The percentage of HPVL1 decreased along with the increase of severity of the cervical intraepithelial lesions.Genomic amplification of hTERC positive rates in normal or chronic inflammation,CIN Ⅰ,CIN Ⅱ,CIN Ⅲ and SCC groups were 6.52 ％ (3/46),11.58 ％ (11/95),51.72 ％ (30/58),85.94 ％ (55/64) and 100.00 ％ (37/37),respectively.The percentage of hTERC increased along with the severity of the cervical intraepithelial lesions (rs =0.302,P ＜ 0.01).The percentage of HPVL+/hTERC-was 57.89 ％ in CIN Ⅰ group and 4.69 ％ in CIN Ⅲ group.The percentage of HPVL-/hTERC+ was 6.32 ％ in CIN Ⅰ group and 79.69 ％ in CIN Ⅲ group.Conclusion The detection of HPVL1 and hTERC are important for assisting cervical lesions screening and monitoring of disease progression in the HR-HPV positive cytologic specimens.
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Objective To investigate the expression level of human telomerase RNA component (hTERC) and C-myc in cervical lesions.Methods Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was applied to detect hTERC and C-myc expression in 62 cases of cervical tissue including 35 cases of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia,8 cases of invasive cervical cancer,19 cases of inflammation as controls.Results The positive rates of hTERC on chromosome 3 in chronic cervicitis organizations,CIN Ⅰ,CIN Ⅱ-Ⅲ and cervical cancer were 5.3 ％ (1/19),16.7 ％(2/12),87.0 ％ (20/23),87.5 ％ (7/8) (x2 =36.299,x2 =40.237,P ＜0.01).The positive rates of C-myc in chronic cervical inflammation organization,CIN Ⅰ,CIN Ⅱ-Ⅲ and cervical cancer were 5.3 ％ (1/19),8.3 ％ (1/12),78.3 ％ (18/23),62.5 ％ (5/8) (x2 =30.200,x2 =34.224,P ＜0.01 ).The differences among groups were statistically significant.hTERC had a positively correlation with C-myc expression (r =0.514,P ＜ 0.01).Conclusion The expression of hTERC and C-myc on chromosome 3 is closely related to cervical cancer progression.
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the severity of cytological and histological grade. The evidence of hTERC, with or without amplification, might serve as a prognostic indicator to measure the grade of lesion.