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ArticleCancer biomarkers : section A of Disease markers2019

Spinal versus intracranial meningioma: Expression of E-cadherin and Fascin with relation to clinicopathological features.

Abd AlRahman Mohammad Foda, Mariya Syed Alam, Nadeem Ikram, Samia Rafi, Khaled Elnaghi

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Article in Cancer biomarkers : section A of Disease markers, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Abd AlRahman Mohammad FodaPathology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.
Mariya Syed AlamBatterjee Medical College for Sciences and Technology, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Nadeem IkramBatterjee Medical College for Sciences and Technology, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Samia RafiBatterjee Medical College for Sciences and Technology, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Khaled ElnaghiMedical Oncology Unit, Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.
Batterjee Medical CollegeUniversity of Business and Technology · SAMansoura University · EG

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backgroundE-cadherin and Fascin are adhesive proteins that are expressed in many tumors. It was supposed that loss of expression of these proteins is associated with increased aggressiveness of the tumor. Whether spinal and intracranial meningiomas express adhesion proteins in different rates is not yet known.

objectiveWe aimed to investigate the expression of E-cadherin and Fascin in a large number of meningioma specimens and determine if clinical and prognostic significance existsMETHODS: One hundred and thirty-four spinal and intracranial meningioma samples were collected. Manual TMA blocks were constructed and immunohistochemistry for E-cadherin and Fascin was done. Focal or diffuse staining was considered positive.

resultsIntracranial meningioma occurred in significantly younger age than spinal ones. Most of spinal meningiomas were of transitional histology. E-cadherin was expressed in 38.8% of cases. Spinal meningiomas showed statistically significant negative expression of E-cadherin than intracranial tumors. All atypical meningiomas showed negative E-cadherin expression. Fascin was expressed in 9% of cases with significant expression in atypical cases.

conclusionsAggressive behavior of meningioma could be explained in part by loss of E-cadherin and overexpression of Fascin especially in spinal meningiomas. Further studies are suggested to explore the biological aspects of spinal and intracranial meningiomas for constructing tailored targeted therapies.

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CadherinsCarrier ProteinsFemaleHumansMaleMeningiomaMicrofilament ProteinsPrognosisCadherinsCarrier ProteinsfascinMicrofilament ProteinsE-cadherinFascinintracranial meningiomaspinal meningioma

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