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ArticleJournal of cancer research and clinical oncology1996

Bcl-2 expression and allelic loss of the p53 gene in gastric carcinomas.

M Saegusa, Y Takano, Y Kamata, J Okayasu

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Article in Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology, 1996. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

M SaegusaDepartment of Pathology, Kitasato University, School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.
Y Takano
Y Kamata
J Okayasu
Kitasato University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In order to clarify the association between bcl-2 protein (Bcl-2) expression and genetic alteration, we investigated p53 and DCC (deleted in the colon carcinoma gene locus) gene abnormalities in Bcl-2-positive and -negative gastric carcinomas using a polymerase chain reaction/loss of heterozygosity (LOH) assay. Bcl-2 immunoreactivity was found in 25 of 178 (14%) gastric carcinoma cases. With these 25 positive cases, the proportion 18/87 (20.6%) of the total in early stages demonstrating invasion of the mucosa and/or submucosa was significantly greater (P = 0.013) than the 7/91 (7.7%) found for advanced tumors exhibiting invasion into or through the muscularis propria. However, there was no statistically significant variation between the proportions for differentiated (17/98 cases, 17.3%) and undifferentiated (8/80 cases, 10%) lesions. Sixteen Bcl-2-positive cases (9 cases were not studied because of insufficient specimen material to allow extraction of DNA) and 31 cases randomly selected from a Bcl-2-negative group were analyzed for the presence of p53-LOH or DCC-LOH and for p53 by immuno-histochemistry. The minority of the Bcl-2-positive group had p53-LOH and were immunopositive for p53 (P = 0.033, P = 0.028 respectively), while no association was found in the Bcl-2-negative category. In contrast, there was no correlation at all between Bcl-2 expression and DCC-LOH although the number of informative cases analyzed was too small to allow definite conclusions. These results indicate that Bcl-2 may be predominantly expressed at an early stage in gastric carcinomas, possibly in negative association with p53 gene abnormalities.

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AllelesGene DeletionGenes, p53Base SequenceCell NucleusCytoplasmGene ExpressionGenes, DCCHeterozygoteHumansImmunohistochemistryMolecular Sequence DataPolymerase Chain ReactionProto-Oncogene ProteinsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2Stomach NeoplasmsProto-Oncogene ProteinsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2

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PMID8690754
PMCPMC12201134
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