| Literature DB >> 16546353 |
W-F Chiang1, C-Y Yen, C-N Lin, G-A Liaw, C-T Chiu, Y-J Hsia, S-Y Liu.
Abstract
The Pim-1 proto-oncogene, encoding a serine-threonine kinase, has been found to play an important role in regulating apoptosis, differentiation, proliferation and tumourigenesis. The present study was conducted to assess the importance of Pim-1 in oral tumourigenesis in vivo. Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction and immunohistochemistry were used to study the expression of Pim-1 in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) and non-cancerous match tissue (NCMT) sampled from the periphery of the tumours. Pim-1 mRNA expression in OSCC was significantly higher than that in NCMT in 36 tissue pairs (1.33+/-0.41 versus 0.97+/-0.29, P=0.03). The percentage of OSCCs exhibiting strong cytoplasmic Pim-1 immunoreactivity was significantly higher than that of NCMT (60% versus 19%, P=0.007). Pim-1 immunoreactivity is higher in the more differentiated components of a tumour. In around 10% of OSCC cases, Pim-1 immunoreactivity was found in the nucleus as well. These results show novel findings of the up-regulation of Pim-1 expression from NCMT to OSCC. The pathogenetic role of Pim-1 expression in oral tumourigenesis deserves further investigation.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 16546353 DOI： 10.1016/j.ijom.2006.01.027
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg ISSN： 0901-5027 Impact factor: 2.789