Expression of FLIP and its correlation with apoptosis in non-small cell lung cancer / 中国肺癌杂志
Chinese Journal of Lung Cancer
; (12): 51-54, 2003.
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<p><b>BACKGROUND</b>To investigate the relation between FLIP expression and apoptosis in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).</p><p><b>METHODS</b>FLIP expression was examined in forty-eight paraffin-embeded NSCLC samples and 16 benign pulmonary disease tissues by immunohistochemistry method. Apoptosis of NSCLC cells was detected by TUNEL technique.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The positive rate of FLIP expression in NSCLC was 83.33%(40/48), which was significantly higher than that in benign pulmonary disease tissues (P < 0.01). The expression level of FLIP was closely related to TNM stages and lymph node involvement, but not to histological classification and cell differentiation. No correlation was observed between the expression of FLIP and apoptosis index of tumor cells (r=-0.211,P > 0.05 ).</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>Overexpression of FLIP may be involved in the progression of NSCLC, but its expression may not be related to cell apoptosis in NSCLC.</p>
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Chinese Journal of Lung Cancer
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2003
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