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- Original Article The Loss of Expression of Caveolin-1 in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors.
- Eo Jin Kim, Jin Hee Sohn, Min Kyung Kim, Seoung Wan Chae, Hye Seung Lee, Eun Yoon Cho, Woo Ho Kim
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Journal of Pathology and Translational Medicine 2005;39(5):338-344
DOI: https://doi.org/
2Department of Pathology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea.
3Department of Pathology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
4Department of Pathology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. woohokim@snu.ac.kr
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Abstract
BACKGROUND
The down-regulation of caveolin-1, a putative tumor suppressor gene, has been demonstrated in several types of sarcomas. However, it's not known whether or not the gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) express caveolin-1. We carried out this study to investigate the caveolin-1 expression in GISTs and to determine the correlation between the clinicopathologic profiles of GISTs and the expression of caveolin-1.
METHODS
One hundred eight cases of formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissues of GISTs were immunohistochemically evaluated for the expression of caveolin-1 by using the tissue-array method. Survival data of 98 cases of primary GISTs was analysed according to the expression status of caveolin-1.
RESULTS
Ninety three cases (86.1%) of 108 GISTs did not express caveolin-1 protein. There was no correlation between the caveolin-1 expression status and any of the clinicopathologic variables, including mitosis (p=0.948) and tumor grade (p=0.334). The expression of caveolin-1 was not correlated with other immunohistochemical marker proteins including, c-kit (p=0.373), CD34 (p=0.437) and SMA (p=0.831). On the univariate analysis, the caveolin-1 expression status (p=0.635) was not a significant predictor of the disease-free survival for GIST patients.
CONCLUSIONS
The results of this study suggest that caveolin-1 might act as a tumor suppressor gene in the GIST oncogenesis, but it has no function as a prognostic marker for disease free survival.
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