Subjects: Medicine, Pharmacy >> Preclinical Medicine submitted time 2018-01-25 Cooperative journals: 《南方医科大学学报》
Abstract： Objective To investigate the role of specificity protein 1 (Sp1) in regulating radiosensitivity of cervical cancer cell lines. Methods We analyzed Sp1 expression in 6 different cervical cancer cell lines (SiHa, HeLa, Caski, Me180, Ms751, and C33a) using Western blotting and real-time PCR. Clonogenic survival assay and curve fitting were used to assess the changes in radiosensitivity of Me180 cells transfected with lentivirus-mediated shRNAvector targeting sp1 and HeLa cells transfected with sp1 over-expression vector. Results In the 6 cell lines tested, the cellular expression levels of Sp1 decreased gradually in the order of Me180, Caski, C33a, SiHa, Ms751, and HeLa. SP1 knockdown with lentivirus-mediated shRNA significantly lowered the survival rate of Me180 cells following radiation exposure (P<0.05), and obviously lowered the values of SF2, D0 and Dq but significantly increased α/β of the cells. Compared with the cells transfected with the mock vector, HeLa cells with sp1 over-expression showed a significantly increased survival following radiation exposure (P<0.05) with obviously increased values of SF2, D0 and Dq but significantly lowered α/β. Conclusion Silencing Sp1 can increase the radiosensitivity while Sp1 overexpression enhances the radioresistance of cervical cancer cell lines, suggesting an important role of Sp1 in radiotherapy forcervicalcancer.
Subjects: Medicine, Pharmacy >> Preclinical Medicine submitted time 2017-12-27 Cooperative journals: 《南方医科大学学报》
Abstract： Objective To investigate the expressions of DAPK3 and c-Myc and their prognostic value in endometrial carcinoma (EC). Methods The expressions of DAPK3 and c-Myc were detected immunohistochemically in 132 surgical specimens. The relationship between DAPK3 and c-Myc protein expressions and the clinicopathological features of the patients was evaluated. Results Immunohistochemical analysis revealed low DAPK3 expression in 60.61% (80/132) and high c-Myc expression in 53.79% (71/132) of the specimens of EC. Both DAPK3 expression and c-Myc expression were significantly correlated with FIGO stage (P=0.034 and 0.015, respectively) and lymph node metastasis (P=0.022 and 0.031, respectively). DAPK3 expression was closely correlated with the histological grade (P=0.027) and depth of myometrial invasion (P=0.011). Kaplan-Meier survival analysis indicated that patients with low DAPK3 expressions had a shorter overall survival rate than those with high DAPK3 expressions (P=0.023), while patients with high c-Myc expressions had poorer prognoses than those with low c-Myc expressions (P=0.002). Spearman correlation analysis showed that DAPK3 and c-Myc expressions were negatively correlated (P<0.001, r=−0.310). Multivariate analysis identified a high c-Myc expression as the independent predictor of the prognosis of EC (P=0.007). Conclusions A low expression of DAPK3 and a high expression of c-Myc are associated with aggressive and metastatic behaviors of EC, and their detection may help to predict the prognosis of the EC patients.
Subjects: Medicine, Pharmacy >> Preclinical Medicine submitted time 2017-12-07 Cooperative journals: 《南方医科大学学报》
Abstract： Objective To investigate the expression patterns of ZEB2 and C-myc in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) and the associations between their expressions and the pathological features of EOC. Methods The expressions of ZEB2 and C-myc proteins were detected immunohistochemically in 191 cervical cancer tissues and 13 normal ovarian tissues. The relationship between ZEB2 and C-myc protein expressions and the clinicopathological features of EOC was evaluated. Results ZEB2 positive expression ratea in EOC tissues and normal ovarian tissues were 49.2% (94/191) and 30.8% (4/13), respectively (P= 0.007), and C-myc positive expression rates in the two tissues were 53.9% (103/191) and 15.4% (2/13), respectively (P=0.001). A high expression of ZEB2 was positively correlated with the pathological type of the tumor (P=0.003), FIGO stage (P=0.028), T stage (P=0.002), and N stage (P=0.04), and a high expression of C-myc was positively correlated with FIGO stage (P=0.035), histological grade (P=0.039), and T stage (P=0.002). C-myc and ZEB2 expressions were positively correlated in EOC (P<0.001), and their co-expression in EOC was significantly correlated with T stage (R=0.358, P<0.001) and FIGO stage (P=0.008). Conclusion ZEB2 and C-myc can promote the progression, invasion and metastasis of EOC, and their combined detection may assist in early diagnosis of EOC.
Hits
Hits
Downloads
Comment