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Título: | Wnt signaling transcription factors TCF-1 and LEF-1 are upregulated in malignant astrocytic brain tumors |
Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
Editorial: | F. Hernández y Juan F. Madrid. Universidad de Murcia: Departamento de Biología Celular e Histología |
Cita bibliográfica: | Histology and Histopathology, Vol. 29, n.º 12 (2014) |
ISSN: | 0213-3911 1699-5848 |
Materias relacionadas: | CDU::5 - Ciencias puras y naturales::57 - Biología::576 - Biología celular y subcelular. Citología CDU::6 - Ciencias aplicadas::61 - Medicina::616 - Patología. Medicina clínica. Oncología |
Palabras clave: | Astrocytic brain tumors Glioblastoma Transcription factors TCF-1 LEF-1 Wnt signaling |
Resumen: | Since the discovery of the TCF/LEF family of transcription factors, their functions have been under intensive investigation in the area of cancer biology. The work presented in this paper focused on the changes in TCF-1 and LEF-1 expression levels in a set of astrocytic brain tumors. Protein expression was detected using immunohistochemistry and then evaluated by Ellipse software (ViDiTo, Slovakia). Statistical evaluations were performed with the SPSS statistical package, version 14.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Strong TCF-1 and LEF-1 expression was observed in 51.6% and 71% of glioblastoma samples. Statistical analysis confirmed significant differences in protein expression levels associated to 3 important values, weak expression of TCF-1, weak expression of LEF-1 and strong expression of LEF-1. Analysis of variances performed on the total sample also indicated significant differences in the values of TCF-1 weak (F=2.804; p=0.045), LEF-1 weak (F=4.255; p=0.008) and LEF-1 strong (F=5.498; p=0.002) with regard to malignancy grade. Thus, glioblastomas were characterized by –in relative terms- the lowest values for weak expression of TCF-1 and LEF-1, combined with the highest values of LEF-1 strong expression. The F-ratios for two variables (LEF-1 strong and LEF-1 weak) indicated that differences between astrocytomas (II, III) and glioblastomas were statistically significant (p<0.02). Discriminant function analysis further showed that strong LEF-1 expression alone could discriminate between astrocytomas (II, III) and glioblastomas. Elevated TCF-1 and LEF-1 expression is characteristic of malignant gliomas. LEF-1, in particular, may serve as a potential marker for malignant transformation. |
Autor/es principal/es: | Pećina-Šlaus, Nives Kafka, Anja Tomas, Davor Marković, Leon Okštajner, Petar Krešimir Sukser, Viktorija Krušlin, Božo |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10201/84843 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.14670/HH-29.1557 |
Tipo de documento: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Número páginas / Extensión: | 8 |
Derechos: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
Aparece en las colecciones: | Vol.29, nº12 (2014) |
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