ArticleJournal of cancer research and clinical oncology2012
FAK and Src expression in mobile tongue squamous cell carcinoma: associations with clinicopathological parameters and patients survival.
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- Prognostic Value of Focal Adhesion Kinase (FAK) in Human Solid Carcinomas: A Meta-Analysis.PloS one · 2016Pooled it
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- Focal Adhesion Kinase (FAK) Overexpression and Phosphorylation in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma and their Clinicopathological Significance.Pathology oncology research : POR · 2020Article
- Expression of human papillomavirus oncoproteins E6 and E7 inhibits invadopodia activity but promotes cell migration in HPV-positive head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cells.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2018Article
- A review of the most promising biomarkers for early diagnosis and prognosis prediction of tongue squamous cell carcinoma.British journal of cancer · 2018Review
- Invasion-Related Factors as Potential Diagnostic and Therapeutic Targets in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma-A Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2018Review
- Effect of Src Kinase inhibition on Cytochrome c, Smac/DIABLO and Apoptosis Inducing Factor (AIF) Following Cerebral Hypoxia-Ischemia in Newborn Piglets.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- The Prognostic Value of Tyrosine Kinase SRC Expression in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer.Journal of Cancer · 2017Article
- Mechanisms of Invasion in Head and Neck Cancer.Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine · 2015Review
- Hu-antigen receptor (HuR) and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) expression in human non-small-cell lung carcinoma: associations with clinicopathological parameters, tumor proliferative capacity and patients' survival.Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine · 2015Article
- GRIM-19 mutations fail to inhibit v-Src-induced oncogenesis.Oncogene · 2014Article
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Abstract
purposeFocal adhesion kinase (FAK) and Src are protein tyrosine kinases, localized in the focal adhesions, which, upon activation interacts each other, regulate several cellular signaling pathways implicated in malignant transformation and disease progression. The present study aimed to evaluate the clinical significance of FAK and Src protein expression in mobile tongue squamous cell carcinoma (SCC).
methodsFAK and Src protein expression was assessed immunohistochemically on 48 mobile tongue SCC tissue samples and was analyzed in relation with clinicopathological characteristics, overall and disease-free patients' survival.
resultsFAK positivity was noted in 32 (66.67 %) and Src positivity in 45 (93.75 %) out of 48 mobile tongue SCC cases. FAK and Src protein expression was significantly increased in well-differentiated tumors compared to poorly differentiated ones (p = 0.0455 and p = 0.0301, respectively). Mobile tongue SCC patients presenting elevated Src expression showed longer overall and disease-free survival (log-rank test, p = 0.0145 and p = 0.0388, respectively). In multivariate analysis, the depth of invasion proved to be an independent prognostic factor of both overall and disease-free patients' survival (Cox regression, p = 0.0313 and p = 0.0481, respectively), whereas Src expression did not remain significant.
conclusionsThe present study supported evidence for a potential role of FAK and Src signaling in mobile tongue SCC, rendering their small-molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors as possible treatment strategy in tongue cancer chemoprevention.
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