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ArticleTranslational oncology2018

Preoperative Anti-Class III β-Tubulin Antibodies As Relevant Clinical Biomarkers in Ovarian Cancer.

Enrica Martinelli, Andrea Fattorossi, Alessandra Battaglia, Marco Petrillo, Giuseppina Raspaglio, Gian Franco Zannoni, Mara Fanelli, Daniela Gallo, Giovanni Scambia

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Article in Translational oncology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Enrica MartinelliDepartment of Woman and Child Health, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli -Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Andrea FattorossiDepartment of Woman and Child Health, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli -Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Alessandra BattagliaDepartment of Woman and Child Health, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli -Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Marco PetrilloDepartment of Woman and Child Health, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli -Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Giuseppina RaspaglioDepartment of Woman and Child Health, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli -Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Gian Franco ZannoniDepartment of Woman and Child Health, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli -Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Mara FanelliLaboratory of Molecular Oncology, Fondazione di Ricerca e Cura Giovanni Paolo II, Campobasso, Italy.
Daniela GalloDepartment of Woman and Child Health, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli -Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: daniela.gallo@unicatt.it.
Giovanni ScambiaDepartment of Woman and Child Health, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli -Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Class III β-tubulin (TUBB3) overexpression in ovarian cancer (OC) associates with poor prognosis. We investigated whether TUBB3 overexpression elicited anti-TUBB3 antibody production in OC patients and whether these antibodies may have diagnostic and prognostic impact. The presence of serum anti-TUBB3 antibodies was investigated in 49 untreated OC patients and 44 healthy individuals by an in-house developed ELISA that used recombinant TUBB3 as the antigen. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were generated to assess the diagnostic accuracy of the assay. Anti-TUBB3 antibodies discriminated OC patients and healthy individuals with excellent sensitivity and specificity (91.8% and 90.9%, respectively). In multivariate analysis, anti-TUBB3 antibody level emerged as an independent prognostic factor for progression free and overall survival. The ELISA was then optimized using a biotin-labeled TUBB3 C-terminal peptide

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