| Literature DB >> 3133342 |
S Yazawa1, T Asao, H Izawa, Y Miyamoto, K L Matta.
Abstract
Eighteen cancer patients showed high levels of CA19-9 in sera, even though the blood-group phenotypes of their red blood cells were Le(a-b-). Seven of these patients (group I) were determined as Le(a-b-) from both red blood cells and saliva consistently, whereas eleven other patients (group II) secreted either Le(a) or Le(b) antigen in saliva and showed the expression of incompatible Lewis blood-group antigens. GDP-fucose: N-acetyl-glucosaminide alpha(1----4)-L-fucosyltransferase was demonstrated to be present in salivas from both group I and group II. These results suggest that a cancer-associated alteration of Lewis blood-group antigen expression occurs in cancer patients.Entities:
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Year: 1988 PMID: 3133342 PMCID: PMC5917498 DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.1988.tb01624.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Jpn J Cancer Res ISSN: 0910-5050