1. p53 expression in hepatocellular carcinoma in Greece. Correlation with epidemiological and histopathological data.
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Skopelitou A, Hadjiyannakis M, Alexopoulou V, Kamina S, Krikoni O, and Agnantis NJ
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- Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Antibodies, Monoclonal, Carcinoma, Hepatocellular epidemiology, Carcinoma, Hepatocellular pathology, Female, Greece, Hepatitis B diagnosis, Hepatitis B epidemiology, Hepatitis B metabolism, Hepatitis C diagnosis, Hepatitis C epidemiology, Hepatitis C metabolism, Hepatitis E metabolism, Humans, Immunoenzyme Techniques, Liver pathology, Liver Cirrhosis metabolism, Liver Neoplasms epidemiology, Liver Neoplasms pathology, Male, Middle Aged, Prevalence, Serologic Tests, Carcinoma, Hepatocellular metabolism, Liver Neoplasms metabolism, Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 metabolism
- Abstract
Localization of p53 oncoprotein was investigated in 60 hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) from patients resident in the Northwest and Central Greece. The streptavidin-biotin complex immunoperoxidase method was performed in archival formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded material, using the monoclonal antibody DO-1. The aim of our study was to correlate p53 expression with histological and epidemiological data. p53 overexpression in patients with serological hepatitis B or C was greater (47%) as compared to that observed in patients without these markers (p < 0.01). Morphologically normal liver tissue (NLT) and liver cell dysplasia (LCD) was recognized adjacent to HCC developing on non-alcoholic cirrhotic livers in patients with "NonA, NonB hepatitis" from between 1975-1986. NLT and LCD and p53 oncoprotein was expressed in 10% of the cases. No relationship was observed between p53 expression and tumor histological grade, patients' age and sex. These results suggest that in Northwest and Central Greece, p53 oncosupressor gene may be involved in some HCCs; it may be associated with viral chronic infection disease (HBV or HCV), and as yet with uncharacterized viruses which remain to be determined.
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- 1996
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