Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2114234 | Cancer Letters | 2009 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Loss of cellular polarity/cohesiveness and periostin expression are involved in the epithelial–mesenchymal transition in the epithelial malignancies. Their roles in papillary thyroid carcinoma were studied. There was a significant correlation between the loss of cellular polarity/cohesiveness in the invasive front and the up-regulation of periostin in tumors. Both of them were significantly correlated with extrathyroid invasion, pT and lymph node metastasis. Our results suggest that the loss of cellular polarity/cohesiveness is a useful parameter for predicting prognosis of patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma, and periostin could be a candidate gene for therapeutic targeting for the blockage of tumor invasion.
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Authors
Yanhua Bai, Kennichi Kakudo, Misa Nakamura, Takashi Ozaki, Yaqiong Li, Zhiyan Liu, Ichiro Mori, Akira Miyauchi, Gengyin Zhou,