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ArticleJournal of cancer research and clinical oncology2015

Further evaluation of uPA and PAI-1 as biomarkers for prostatic diseases.

John Akudugu, Antonio Serafin, Lothar Böhm

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Article in Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

John AkuduguDivision of Radiobiology, Department of Medical Imaging and Clinical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, 7505, South Africa, jakudugu@sun.ac.za.
Antonio Serafin
Lothar Böhm
Stellenbosch University · ZA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo assay for uPA and PAI-1 in prostate tissue from 40 patients with prostatic disease and to examine the robustness of the correlation of the uPA/PAI-1 ratio with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and prostate cancer (PCa), previously identified in a different cohort of 62 patients.

methodsuPA and PAI-1 were extracted from liquid N2 frozen homogenised prostate tissue with TRIS/Triton pH 8.5 buffer and measured by ELISA (FEMTELLE).

resultsThe concentration of uPA (mean ± SD) was found to be 0.1177 ± 0.0266 (range 0.0070-0.7200; n = 30) and 0.1092 ± 0.0130 (range 0.0040-0.7800; n = 70) for PCa and BPH patients, respectively. The concentration of PAI-1 was found to be 5.236 ± 0.688 ng/mg protein (range 1.10-15.19; n = 30) and 4.975 ± 0.501 ng/mg protein (range 0.20-25.00; n = 70) for PCa and BPH patients, respectively. The mean uPA/PAI-1 ratio was found to be 0.0479 ± 0.0060 (range 0.0043-0.1200; n = 30) in PCa samples and was significantly higher than BPH samples where the ratio was 0.0332 ± 0.0023 (range 0.0040-0.0860; n = 70) (P = 0.0064). In PCa patients older than 68 years, the uPA/PAI-1 ratio was above 0.050 reaching 0.100 in 73-year-old patients.

conclusionsEvaluation of 100 patients with prostatic pathologies (70 PCa; 30 BPH) shows the uPA/PAI-1 ratios in PCa patients to be significantly higher than in BPH patients. This is fully consistent with a previous study on 62 patients (16 were PCa; 46 BPH) where the ratios were 0.055 and 0.031 for PCa and BPH patients, respectively (P = 0.0028). In older PCa patients, uPA/PAI-1 ratios tend to be higher.

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AgedAged, 80 and overAge FactorsBiomarkersDiagnosis, DifferentialEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayHumansMaleMiddle AgedPlasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1Prostatic HyperplasiaProstatic NeoplasmsSensitivity and SpecificityUrokinase-Type Plasminogen ActivatorBiomarkersPlasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator

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PMID25323935
PMCPMC11824124
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