Expression of programmed cell death 4 and its correlation with proliferation and apoptosis in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma / 临床耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志

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OBJECTIVE@#To study the expression of PDCD4 and its relationship with cell proliferation and apoptosis in laryngeal squamous cell carcinomas and to evaluate its clinical significance.@*METHOD@#The immunohistochemical staining method was applied to investigate the expression of PDCD4 and Ki-67 in 60 laryngeal squamous cell carcinomas tissues and 21 their surrounding laryngeal normal mucosa tissues. TUNEL method was applied to detect the apoptosis. The proliferation index (PI) and apoptosis index (AI) were defined.@*RESULT@#The positive rate of PDCD4 protein was significantly lower in laryngeal squamous cell carcinomas than that in the laryngeal normal mucosa tissues (P < 0.01). The expression of PDCD4 had relation with the differentiation grading and lymph node metastasis (P < 0.05), but not related to tumor sites and TNM stage. The PI of laryngeal squamous cell carcinomas tissues was higher than that of the normal laryngeal mucosa tissues (P < 0.01). No relation was found among PI and tumor sites, differentiation grading and lymph node metastasis. PI had correlation with TNM stage (P < 0.05). The AI of the cancer was higher than that of normal laryngeal mucosa tissues (P < 0.01). There was no relationship between AI and tumor sites, TNM stage and lymph node metastasis. AI correlated with differentiation grading (P < 0.01). The PI in PDCD4 positive group was significantly lower than in PDCD4 negative group (P < 0.05). The AI in PDCD4 positive group was significantly higher than in PDCD4 negative group (P < 0.05).@*CONCLUSION@#The expression of PDCD4 is low in laryngeal squamous cell carcinomas and it may play important roles in occurrence and development of laryngeal squamous cell carcinomas through the inducing apoptosis and inhibiting proliferation.