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ArticleJournal of oral and maxillofacial pathology : JOMFP

Immunohistochemical expression of human telomerase reverse transcriptase in oral cancer and precancer: A case-control study.

Namrata Mishra, Nishi Tandon, Naseem Fatima, Anand N Srivastava, Nirupma Lal, Vijay Kumar

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Namrata MishraDepartment of Pathology, Era's Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Nishi TandonDepartment of Pathology, Era's Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Naseem FatimaDepartment of Pathology, Era's Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Anand N SrivastavaDepartment of Pathology, Era's Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Nirupma LalDepartment of Pathology, Era's Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Vijay KumarDepartment of Surgical Oncology, K.G. Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Era's Lucknow Medical College and Hospital · INKing George's Medical University · IN

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introductionTelomere Length is critically important in normal cells and telomere shortening in combination with other oncogenic changes- promotes genome instability, potentially stimulating initiation of the early stages of cancer.

aimThe present study was carried out to detect human telomerase reverse transcriptase expression in oral cancer and pre-cancerous lesions by immunohistochemistry. MATERIALS AND

methodsAn observational study was planned in which a total of 45 biopsy specimen of oral mucosa was obtained. Of these, 15 (33.3%) belonged to normal subjects, 15 (33.3%) to subjects found to have Oral submucousal fibrosis and 15 (33.3%) subjects with Oral squamous cell carcinoma.

resultsAmong cases of OSCC, majority was of well differentiated grade (80.0%), only 1 (6.7%) case was poorly differentiated and rest was of moderately differentiated (13.3%) Labelling intensity of OSCC (78.07 ± 22.31) was maximum followed by that of Normal (44.47 ± 6.32) and minimum of OSMF (26.67 ± 15.05) and intergroup difference and between group differences were also found to be significant. Labelling score of OSCC (154.47 ± 94.74) was maximum followed by that of Normal (84.73 ± 51.51) and minimum of OSMF (46.73 ± 44.25) and intergroup difference and between groups differences (Normal vs OSCC, and OSMF and OSCC) were found to be statistically significant.

conclusionThe present study highlights only the discriminating ability of hTERT for differentiating the malignant condition from premalignant and normal mucosa. Hence, further studies on a larger sample size, with inclusion of other premalignant conditions too are recommended in order to understand the pattern of hTERT expression changes.

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Immunohistochemistryoral squamous cell carcinomatelomerasetelomere

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