کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5716367 1606649 2017 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Original contributionInverse expression of caveolin-1 and EGFR in thyroid cancer patients
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی آسیب‌شناسی و فناوری پزشکی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Original contributionInverse expression of caveolin-1 and EGFR in thyroid cancer patients
چکیده انگلیسی

SummaryCytological analysis of fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is the first step in evaluation of patients with nodular thyroid disease with the primary goal to exclude thyroid malignancy. Its improvement by combining cytology with molecular markers is still a matter of investigation. In this study, 2 molecular markers were used: caveolin-1 and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), along with the well-established genetic marker BRAF V600E mutation. We set out to determine the expression signatures of EGFR and caveolin-1 in patients with thyroid malignancy as well as to determine their possible association with disease severity. In FNA biopsy samples (n = 186), immunocytochemical expression of caveolin-1 and BRAF V600E mutation coincided with malignancy. The patients were sorted according to 3 parameters: final histopathological diagnosis, caveolin-1 expression, and BRAF V600E mutation status before measurement of EGFR mRNA expression. EGFR upregulation was detected in the group of patients with malignant diagnosis, no caveolin-1 expression, and wild-type BRAF. Spearman rank correlation yielded a statistically significant negative correlation of EGFR and caveolin-1. Double immunofluorescence confirmed colocalization and inverse expression of EGFR and caveolin-1. Our data demonstrated that EGFR overexpression is associated with malignancy but not with tumor aggressiveness. Furthermore, high-caveolin-1/low-EGFR cases were associated with an advanced pT status and had a greater degree of neoplastic infiltration than low-caveolin-1/high-EGFR cases. Combining caveolin-1 and BRAF V600E with EGFR might help in recognizing more aggressive thyroid lesions in a pool of relatively indolent tumors in FNA biopsies and thus be useful for early risk stratification of thyroid cancer patients.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Human Pathology - Volume 61, March 2017, Pages 164-172
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