Expressions of transforming growth factor β 1 and dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase 2 in early-stage lung adenocarcinoma and their clinical significances / 肿瘤研究与临床

ABSTRACT

Objective:To investigate the expressions and significances of transforming growth factor β 1 (TGF-β 1) and dimethylarginine dimethylaminohydrolase 2 (DDAH2) in different stages of early-stage lung adenocarcinoma, and to provide basis for accurate pathological diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma. Methods:Sixty-two surgical specimens from patients with early-stage lung adenocarcinoma in Shanxi Bethune Hospital from January 2012 to June 2019 were selected. Most of the specimens contained more than one pathological type. According to the pathological types, they were divided into three groups 18 cases of atypical adenomatous hyperplasia (AAH), 60 cases of adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS), and 55 cases of invasive carcinoma (CA) component in minimally invasive adenocarcinoma (MIA) and lepidic predominant adenocarcinoma (LPA), and the wall attached growth patterns were selected as control group. Immunohistochemistry was used to detect the expressions of TGF-β 1 and DDAH2 proteins in different pathological types of lesions and control tissues, and the correlation among them was analyzed. Results:TGF-β 1 and DDAH2 proteins were expressed in normal lung tissue epithelial cells, and the positive rates were high [46.8% (29/62) and 98.4% (61/62)]. The positive rates of TGF-β 1 and DDAH2 proteins in epithelial cells of AAH, AIS and CA increased gradually, the positive rate of TGF-β 1 protein was 16.7% (3/18), 31.7% (19/60) and 70.9% (39/55), the positive rate of DDAH2 protein was 66.6% (12/18), 81.7% (49/60) and 90.1% (49/55), and the differences of positive rates among different pathological types were statistically significant (all P < 0.01). The positive rates of TGF-β 1 and DDAH2 protein in interstitial fibroblasts of normal lung tissue, AAH, AIS and CA increased gradually, the positive rate of TGF-β 1 protein was 11.3% (7/62), 61.1% (11/18), 72.3% (44/60), and 83.6% (46/55), the positive rate of DDAH2 protein was 0 (0/62), 22.2% (4/18), 65.0% (39/60), and 98.2% (54/55), and the differences of positive rates among different pathological types were statistically significant (all P < 0.01). In lung adenocarcinoma tissues, there was a positive correlation between the expression of TGF-β 1 in epithelial cells and the expression of DDAH2 in interstitial fibroblasts ( r = 0.221, P = 0.011). Conclusions:The expression trend of TGF-β 1 and DDAH2 proteins in different pathological types of early-stage lung adenocarcinoma lesions may relate to the degree of lesions. The combined detection of TGF-β 1 and DDAH2 proteins is expected to be a biomarker for the auxiliary diagnosis of early-stage lung adenocarcinoma with different pathological types.