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ArticleMolecular and clinical oncology2021

Epstein-Barr virus infection mediated TP53 and Bcl-2 expression in nasopharyngeal carcinoma pathogenesis.

Chittibabu Vatte, Ali M Al-Amri, Cyril Cyrus, Shahanas Chathoth, Arafat Ahmad, Ahmed Alsayyah, Amein Al-Ali

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Article in Molecular and clinical oncology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Chittibabu VatteDepartment of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam 31441, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Ali M Al-AmriDepartment of Internal Medicine, King Fahd Hospital of the University, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Al-Khobar 31952, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Cyril CyrusDepartment of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam 31441, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Shahanas ChathothDepartment of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam 31441, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Arafat AhmadDepartment of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam 31441, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Ahmed AlsayyahDepartment of Pathology, King Fahd Hospital of the University, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Al-Khobar 31952, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Amein Al-AliDepartment of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam 31441, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University · SAKing Fahd Hospital of the University · SA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epstein Barr virus (EBV) stimulates neoplastic transformation of nasopharyngeal epithelial cells through various molecular mechanisms, predominantly affecting inactivation of tumor-suppressor genes and activation of oncogenes. EBV infection is a major risk factor for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), yet its role in the carcinogenesis is not clear. EBV infection alters the expression of antiapoptotic proteins and tumor suppressor proteins. Therefore, this study investigated the correlation between EBV infection status with B cell lymphoma-2 (Bcl-2) and TP53 protein expression amongst laryngeal and nasopharyngeal cancer cases. This study was performed using 22 nasopharyngeal and 11 laryngeal cancer cases. EBV infection status, TP53 and Bcl-2 protein expression was studied using immunohistochemistry. The majority of the laryngeal cancer cases exhibited a poor prognosis and presented low Bcl-2 expression. A total of 22.7% cases were infected with EBV in the NPC cases. Upregulated TP53 expression was associated with EBV infection in the NPC cohort, and EBV infection was correlated with TP53 upregulation in the patients with NPC, suggesting mutual regulation between TP53 and EBV.

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Epstein Barr virusnasopharyngeal canceroverexpressionprognosisTP53

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