Expression of CD44 Alternative Splicing Variants in Primary and Lymph Node Metastatic Lesions of Gynecological Cancer

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Title ( eng )
Expression of CD44 Alternative Splicing Variants in Primary and Lymph Node Metastatic Lesions of Gynecological Cancer
Creator
Yorishima Tsutomu
Nagai Nobutaka
Ohama Koso
Source Title
Hiroshima Journal of Medical Sciences
Volume 46
Issue 1
Start Page 21
End Page 29
Journal Identifire
[PISSN] 0018-2052
[EISSN] 2433-7668
[NCID] AA00664312
Abstract
CD44 is known as an adhesion molecule which is involved in lymphocyte activation and lymphocyte homing. In recent years, its role in the invasion and metastasis of malignant tumors has attracted the attention of investigators.  

In this study, the expression of CD44 variants was investigated in primary lesions and metastasis into the lymph node in 53 patients with gynecological cancer.  

The following patients with various types of gynecological carcinoma, established by operation and pre-treatment biopsy, were included in this study: 19 patients with cancer of the uterine cervix, 23 with cancer of the uterine endometrium, and 11 with ovarian cancer. Tissue samples were obtained from a primary lesion and a nodal metastasis of each patient, and immunohistochemical staining was performed by the ABC method through the use of monoclonal antibodies against CD44vl-10. Specimens proving CD44vl-10 positive were then submitted to immunohistochemical staining through the use of monoclonal antibodies against CD44v6 and CD44v9. Expression of CD44v was judged positive when DAB revealed color development, irrespective of the degree of staining intensity.  

CD44v were all expressed in the cancer cell membrane. In normal endometrium, expression of CD44vl-10 and v9 was observed in the endometrial gland cell membrane. In normal ovarian tissues, CD44v6 and v9 were not detected.  

The expression of CD44v6 in patients with endometrial cancer was noted in 13 (72.2%) of 18 patients with vascular invasion and in one (20.0%) of 5 patients without it, indicating a significant relation to vascular invasion. It was also remarkably higher in those for whom the invasion exceeded 1/2 of the myometrium than in those for whom the invasion did not exceed 1/2 of the myometrium, and was higher too in advanced stages and in node-positive patients. In one patient, CD44v6 was detected not in the primary lesion but in the nodal metastasis. The expression of CD44v6 in patients with ovarian cancer occurred more frequently in nodepositive patients.  

Our study results suggest that the expression of CD44v6 in endometrial adenocarcinoma cells is involved in the progression of the carcinoma, nodal metastasis, myometrial invasion, and vascular invasion, and that in ovarian cancer, the expression of CD44v6 is involved in nodal metastasis.
Keywords
CD44 variant 6
Endometrial adenocarcinoma cells
Ovarian carcinoma
NDC
Medical sciences [ 490 ]
Language
eng
Resource Type departmental bulletin paper
Publisher
Hiroshima University Medical Press
Date of Issued 1997-03
Publish Type Version of Record
Access Rights open access
Source Identifier
[ISSN] 0018-2052
[NCID] AA00664312