Proliferating cell nuclear antigen in malignant and pre-malignant lesions of epithelial origin in the oral cavity and the skin: an immunohistochemical study - PubMed (original) (raw)

Proliferating cell nuclear antigen in malignant and pre-malignant lesions of epithelial origin in the oral cavity and the skin: an immunohistochemical study

T Tsuji et al. Virchows Arch A Pathol Anat Histopathol. 1992.

Abstract

Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) is a nuclear protein synthesized in the late G1 and S phase of the cell cycle and immunohistochemical detection of the protein represents a useful marker for the proliferating fraction of cells in tissue specimens. A series of malignant and pre-malignant lesions of the oral cavity and skin were evaluated by the streptavidin biotin immunoperoxidase method for detection of this protein. Monoclonal anti-PCNA antibody (PC 10) labelled proliferating cells in all cases with varying intensity of nuclear staining. In squamous cell carcinoma (n = 48), PCNA positivity correlated with the differentiation and atypia of the tumour cells; however, in poorly differentiated tumours, the relationship between PCNA expression and proliferation was lost. Basal cell carcinoma showed an increased growth fraction in tiny epithelial nests (mean 43.8, SD 6.0, n = 20) than in neoplastic basal cells (mean 30.1, SD 6.9, n = 8). The growth fractions were significantly higher in the pre-malignant lesions (leukoplakia, mean 22.3, SD 7.7, n = 14; Bowen's disease, mean 45.2, SD 11.7, n = 12; senile keratosis, mean 41.2, SD 7.0, n = 12) than in the normal mucosa (mean 9.8, SD 4.9, n = 10), suggesting that cellular growth fractions correlate with the degree of dysplasia in pre-malignant lesions.

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