GAD and GADmRNA expressions in human gastric cancer / 中华消化内镜杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the role of glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) in the pathogenesis of human gastric cancer. Methods Thirty patients with primary gastric cancers who were diagnosed and treated at our hospital were enrolled into the current study. Immunohistochemistry was carried out to check the ex-pression of GAD protein. Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction ( RT-PCR) was performed to ex-amine the expression of GADmRNA. Then investigated the relationships among the sites of gastric cancer, depth of infiltration, and degree of differentiation, staging and lymphatic metastasis. Results Immunohisto-chemistry analysis showed that GAD expression decreased in gastric cancer tissues compared with that of ad-jacent normal tissue(P