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Inverse correlation of thioredoxin expression with estrogen receptor- and p53-dependent tumor growth in breast cancer tissues

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 2001

Estrogen receptor (ER) and p53 are important transcription factors in the growth regulation of tumor cells in breast cancer. We reported previously that thioredoxin (TRX) regulates the DNA binding activities of ER and p53 in vitro. The expression of pS-2, a trefoil factor, is also correlated with that of ER. To clarify the regulation mechanism of tumor growth in breast cancer, here we investigated the expression of TRX, ER, pS-2, and p53 and the mitotic index (MI) in 147 breast cancer tissues using immunohistochemical analysis. Of 123 TRX+ cases, ER+ cases (n = 62) showed a higher pS-2 score and lower MI than did ER- cases (n = 61). Furthermore, p53- cases (no mutation in p53; n = 76) also showed a lower MI than did p53+ cases (n = 47). There was no significant correlation between pS-2 and ER, MI and ER, or p53 and MI in the TRX- group. Among the ER+ and p53- cases (ER+/p53- group; n = 61), MI was lower in the TRX+ group (n = 46) than in the TRX- group (n = 15). However, in all othe...

MYB, MYBL1, MYBL2, and NFIB Gene Alterations and MYC Overexpression in Salivary Gland Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma

Histopathology, 2017

Adenoid cystic carcinoma (AdCC) is one of the most common salivary gland malignancies and the long-term prognosis is poor. In this study, we examined alterations of AdCC-associated genes, MYB, MYBL1, MYBL2, and NFIB, and their target molecules including MYC. The results were correlated to clinicopathological profile of the patients. Using paraffin tumor sections from 33 cases of salivary gland AdCC, we performed a detailed fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis for gene splits and fusions of MYB, MYBL1, MYBL2, and NFIB. We found that 29/33 (88%) AdCC cases showed gene splits in either MYB, MYBL1, or NFIB. None of the cases showed an MYBL2 gene alteration. AdCCs were genetically divided into six gene groups, MYB-NFIB (n=16), MYB-X (n=4), MYBL1-NFIB (n=2), MYBL1-X (n=1), NFIB-X (n=6), and gene-split-negative (n=4). AdCC patients showing the MYB or MYBL1 gene splits were associated with microscopically positive surgical margins (p=0.0148) and overexpression of MYC (p=0.0164...

Immunohistochemical analysis of thyroid follicular neoplasms and BRAF mutation correlation

Indian journal of cancer

The accurate diagnosis of benign and malign thyroid tumors is very important for the clinical management of patients. The distinction of thyroid papillary carcinoma follicular variant and follicular adenoma can be difficult. To investigate the alternative methods like immunohistochemistry and exon 15 in the BRAF gene 1799 T/A mutation analyses for distinguishing thyroid tumors. We applied immunohistochemical markers; CK19, HMWCK, Galectin-3, HBME-1 and Fibronectin and mutant allele-specific PCR amplification technique was used to determine 1799 T/A mutation within the BRAF gene. Formalin-fixed parafin embedded tissues from 45 surgically total resected thyroids, included 26 thyroid papillary carcinoma follicular variant (FV-TPC), 8 Follicular Adenoma (FA), 6 Minimal invasive follicular carcinoma (MIFC) and 5 Follicular Carcinoma (FC). Statistical Analyses Used: Pearson Chi-Square and Kruskal Wallis tests were performed. There was a positive correlation between FV-TPC and HMWCK, CK 19...