ArticleJournal of oral and maxillofacial pathology : JOMFP
Study of Hypoxia-inducible factor-2α expression in the malignant transformation of Oral submucous fibrosis.
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- Cross-Talk Between Hypoxia-Inducible Factors in Driving the Pathology of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma: An Immunohistochemical Analysis of the Role of Hypoxia-Inducible Factors and Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2025Observational
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- Mechanism of tumour microenvironment in the progression and development of oral cancer.Molecular biology reports · 2021Review
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contextHypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-2α is overexpressed in primary and metastatic human cancers, whose expression is correlated with tumor angiogenesis and patient mortality. HIF plays a role in the progression of fibrosis in oral submucous fibrosis (OSF). AIM AND
objectiveThe aim is to study and compare the expression of HIF-2α in OSF (a), oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) with areca nut usage (b), OSCC without areca nut usage (c) and normal mucosa (d) by immunohistochemistry. SUBJECTS AND
methodsImmunohistochemical detection of HIF-2α was done on 51 samples, which included 11 cases (a), 15 cases (b), 15 cases (c) and the expression was compared with that of (d). STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Data were analyzed using the SPSS™ software (ver. 21.0). Chi-square test and kappa analysis were performed to compare the intensity of staining between the groups and for inter-observer agreement, respectively. Value of
resultsAll the cases of (d), (a), (b) and (c) showed HIF-2α expression (
conclusionAreca nut initiates fibrosis and subsequent hypoxia in OSF which triggers HIF-2α expression in the epithelium. HIF-2α could be a surrogate marker for cancer initiation and progression.
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