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Reduced expression of TGF beta is associated with advanced disease in transitional cell carcinoma.

The gene structure and expression of the related peptide regulatory factors TGF beta 1 and TGF beta 2 were studied in a panel of seven urothelial carcinoma cell lines and 40 transitional cell carcinomas. The latter comprised 15 grade 1, 18 grade 2 and 5 grade 3 tumours and two cases of carcinoma in...

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Autores principales: Coombs, L. M., Pigott, D. A., Eydmann, M. E., Proctor, A. J., Knowles, M. A.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 1993
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1968278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8439507
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author Coombs, L. M.
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Proctor, A. J.
Knowles, M. A.
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description The gene structure and expression of the related peptide regulatory factors TGF beta 1 and TGF beta 2 were studied in a panel of seven urothelial carcinoma cell lines and 40 transitional cell carcinomas. The latter comprised 15 grade 1, 18 grade 2 and 5 grade 3 tumours and two cases of carcinoma in situ. Control tissues included ten matched 'field' biopsies and 17 other biopsies including 11 biopsies of macroscopically normal urothelium, two of which were from patients with no history of bladder cancer. No amplification of rearrangements of either TGF beta 1 or TGF beta 2 were detected in any sample. A complex pattern of expression or the two genes was found in the urothelial cell lines. High, but variable levels of the 2.5 kb TGF beta 1 transcript were detected and lower and more variable levels of the three (4.1 kb, 5.1 kb and 6.5 kb) transcripts of TGF beta 2 were detected. Although those cell lines expressing most TGF beta 1 tended to express less TGF beta 2 transcript there was no clear-cut relationship. In comparison, no TGF beta 2 transcript was identified in any primary transitional cell carcinoma or control tissue. Markedly reduced or undetectable levels of TGF beta 1 transcript were detected in 4/15 (26%) grade 1, 5/18 (28%) grade 2 and 3/5 (60%) grade 3 tumours. There was no clear relationship to tumour stage, lymphocytic infiltration or stromal content of the tumours. Clinical review one year after the 2 year period of tumour collection showed that 6/9 (66%) of patients with tumours with reduced levels of transcript had died or had disease which was not controllable by local resection and 3/9 (33%) had developed tumour re-occurrences. In comparison, in the group with normal levels of expression of TGF beta 1, 3/18 (17%) had disease which was not controllable by local means, 9/18 (50%) had tumour re-occurrence and 6/18 (33%) had no evidence of disease. The association of reduced expression of TGF beta 1 and advanced disease was statistically significant P < 0.02 (Fisher's test). Although the sample size is small, we suggest that the loss of expression of TGF beta 1 may be a potential marker of progressive disease or prognosis in transitional cell carcinoma and warrants further study. IMAGES:
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spelling pubmed-19682782009-09-10 Reduced expression of TGF beta is associated with advanced disease in transitional cell carcinoma. Coombs, L. M. Pigott, D. A. Eydmann, M. E. Proctor, A. J. Knowles, M. A. Br J Cancer Research Article The gene structure and expression of the related peptide regulatory factors TGF beta 1 and TGF beta 2 were studied in a panel of seven urothelial carcinoma cell lines and 40 transitional cell carcinomas. The latter comprised 15 grade 1, 18 grade 2 and 5 grade 3 tumours and two cases of carcinoma in situ. Control tissues included ten matched 'field' biopsies and 17 other biopsies including 11 biopsies of macroscopically normal urothelium, two of which were from patients with no history of bladder cancer. No amplification of rearrangements of either TGF beta 1 or TGF beta 2 were detected in any sample. A complex pattern of expression or the two genes was found in the urothelial cell lines. High, but variable levels of the 2.5 kb TGF beta 1 transcript were detected and lower and more variable levels of the three (4.1 kb, 5.1 kb and 6.5 kb) transcripts of TGF beta 2 were detected. Although those cell lines expressing most TGF beta 1 tended to express less TGF beta 2 transcript there was no clear-cut relationship. In comparison, no TGF beta 2 transcript was identified in any primary transitional cell carcinoma or control tissue. Markedly reduced or undetectable levels of TGF beta 1 transcript were detected in 4/15 (26%) grade 1, 5/18 (28%) grade 2 and 3/5 (60%) grade 3 tumours. There was no clear relationship to tumour stage, lymphocytic infiltration or stromal content of the tumours. Clinical review one year after the 2 year period of tumour collection showed that 6/9 (66%) of patients with tumours with reduced levels of transcript had died or had disease which was not controllable by local resection and 3/9 (33%) had developed tumour re-occurrences. In comparison, in the group with normal levels of expression of TGF beta 1, 3/18 (17%) had disease which was not controllable by local means, 9/18 (50%) had tumour re-occurrence and 6/18 (33%) had no evidence of disease. The association of reduced expression of TGF beta 1 and advanced disease was statistically significant P < 0.02 (Fisher's test). Although the sample size is small, we suggest that the loss of expression of TGF beta 1 may be a potential marker of progressive disease or prognosis in transitional cell carcinoma and warrants further study. IMAGES: Nature Publishing Group 1993-03 /pmc/articles/PMC1968278/ /pubmed/8439507 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Reduced expression of TGF beta is associated with advanced disease in transitional cell carcinoma.
title Reduced expression of TGF beta is associated with advanced disease in transitional cell carcinoma.
title_full Reduced expression of TGF beta is associated with advanced disease in transitional cell carcinoma.
title_fullStr Reduced expression of TGF beta is associated with advanced disease in transitional cell carcinoma.
title_full_unstemmed Reduced expression of TGF beta is associated with advanced disease in transitional cell carcinoma.
title_short Reduced expression of TGF beta is associated with advanced disease in transitional cell carcinoma.
title_sort reduced expression of tgf beta is associated with advanced disease in transitional cell carcinoma.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1968278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8439507
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