ArticleDisease markers2020
Pentraxin 3 (PTX-3) Levels in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid as a Lung Cancer Biomarker.
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- PTX3 as a diagnostic and prognostic biomarker in lung adenocarcinoma: a comprehensive analysis.Discover oncology · 2025Article
- The long pentraxin 3: the invisible loom weaving the warp and weft of tumor destiny.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Pentraxin 3: A Main Driver of Inflammation and Immune System Dysfunction in the Tumor Microenvironment of Glioblastoma.Cancers · 2024Review
- PTX3 promotes breast cancer cell proliferation and metastasis by regulating PKCζbreast cancer, pentraxin 3, protein kinase Cζ, proliferation, metastasis.Experimental and therapeutic medicine · 2024Article
- Role of long pentraxin PTX3 in cancer.Clinical and experimental medicine · 2023Review
- Insights into the Relationship between Pentraxin-3 and Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
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Abstract
In this study, we investigated the utility of pentraxin 3 (PTX-3) in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) as lung cancer (LCa) diagnostic. A total of 89 LCa patients and 84 non-LCa patients who received bronchoscopy in the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University from December 2014 to February 2015 were enrolled. LCa was subdivided according to pathological type (scale, gland, and small cell lung cancer). BALF samples were obtained during bronchoscopy and PTX-3 levels assayed by ELISA.
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