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Akt Activation Correlates with Snail Expression and Potentially Determines the Recurrence of Prostate Cancer in Patients at Stage T2 after a Radical Prostatectomy

Our previous work demonstrated the epithelial-mesenchymal transition factor, Snail, is a potential marker for predicting the recurrence of localized prostate cancer (PCa). Akt activation is important for Snail stabilization and transcription in PCa. The purpose of this study was to retrospectively i...

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Autores principales: Chen, Wei-Yu, Hua, Kuo-Tai, Lee, Wei-Jiunn, Lin, Yung-Wei, Liu, Yen-Nien, Chen, Chi-Long, Wen, Yu-Ching, Chien, Ming-Hsien
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5000592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27455254
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms17081194
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author Chen, Wei-Yu
Hua, Kuo-Tai
Lee, Wei-Jiunn
Lin, Yung-Wei
Liu, Yen-Nien
Chen, Chi-Long
Wen, Yu-Ching
Chien, Ming-Hsien
author_facet Chen, Wei-Yu
Hua, Kuo-Tai
Lee, Wei-Jiunn
Lin, Yung-Wei
Liu, Yen-Nien
Chen, Chi-Long
Wen, Yu-Ching
Chien, Ming-Hsien
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description Our previous work demonstrated the epithelial-mesenchymal transition factor, Snail, is a potential marker for predicting the recurrence of localized prostate cancer (PCa). Akt activation is important for Snail stabilization and transcription in PCa. The purpose of this study was to retrospectively investigate the relationship between the phosphorylated level of Akt (p-Akt) in radical prostatectomy (RP) specimens and cancer biochemical recurrence (BCR). Using a tissue microarray and immunohistochemistry, the expression of p-Akt was measured in benign and neoplastic tissues from RP specimens in 53 patients whose cancer was pathologically defined as T2 without positive margins. Herein, we observed that the p-Akt level was higher in PCa than in benign tissues and was significantly associated with the Snail level. A high p-Akt image score (≥8) was significantly correlated with a higher histological Gleason sum, Snail image score, and preoperative prostate-specific antigen (PSA) value. Moreover, the high p-Akt image score and Gleason score sum (≥7) showed similar discriminatory abilities for BCR according to a receiver-operator characteristic curve analysis and were correlated with worse recurrence-free survival according to a log-rank test (p < 0.05). To further determine whether a high p-Akt image score could predict the risk of BCR, a Cox proportional hazard model showed that only a high p-Akt image score (hazard ratio (HR): 3.12, p = 0.05) and a high Gleason score sum (≥7) (HR: 1.18, p = 0.05) but not a high preoperative PSA value (HR: 0.62, p = 0.57) were significantly associated with a higher risk of developing BCR. Our data indicate that, for localized PCa patients after an RP, p-Akt can serve as a potential prognostic marker that improves predictions of BCR-free survival.
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spelling pubmed-50005922016-09-01 Akt Activation Correlates with Snail Expression and Potentially Determines the Recurrence of Prostate Cancer in Patients at Stage T2 after a Radical Prostatectomy Chen, Wei-Yu Hua, Kuo-Tai Lee, Wei-Jiunn Lin, Yung-Wei Liu, Yen-Nien Chen, Chi-Long Wen, Yu-Ching Chien, Ming-Hsien Int J Mol Sci Article Our previous work demonstrated the epithelial-mesenchymal transition factor, Snail, is a potential marker for predicting the recurrence of localized prostate cancer (PCa). Akt activation is important for Snail stabilization and transcription in PCa. The purpose of this study was to retrospectively investigate the relationship between the phosphorylated level of Akt (p-Akt) in radical prostatectomy (RP) specimens and cancer biochemical recurrence (BCR). Using a tissue microarray and immunohistochemistry, the expression of p-Akt was measured in benign and neoplastic tissues from RP specimens in 53 patients whose cancer was pathologically defined as T2 without positive margins. Herein, we observed that the p-Akt level was higher in PCa than in benign tissues and was significantly associated with the Snail level. A high p-Akt image score (≥8) was significantly correlated with a higher histological Gleason sum, Snail image score, and preoperative prostate-specific antigen (PSA) value. Moreover, the high p-Akt image score and Gleason score sum (≥7) showed similar discriminatory abilities for BCR according to a receiver-operator characteristic curve analysis and were correlated with worse recurrence-free survival according to a log-rank test (p < 0.05). To further determine whether a high p-Akt image score could predict the risk of BCR, a Cox proportional hazard model showed that only a high p-Akt image score (hazard ratio (HR): 3.12, p = 0.05) and a high Gleason score sum (≥7) (HR: 1.18, p = 0.05) but not a high preoperative PSA value (HR: 0.62, p = 0.57) were significantly associated with a higher risk of developing BCR. Our data indicate that, for localized PCa patients after an RP, p-Akt can serve as a potential prognostic marker that improves predictions of BCR-free survival. MDPI 2016-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5000592/ /pubmed/27455254 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms17081194 Text en © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Chen, Wei-Yu
Hua, Kuo-Tai
Lee, Wei-Jiunn
Lin, Yung-Wei
Liu, Yen-Nien
Chen, Chi-Long
Wen, Yu-Ching
Chien, Ming-Hsien
Akt Activation Correlates with Snail Expression and Potentially Determines the Recurrence of Prostate Cancer in Patients at Stage T2 after a Radical Prostatectomy
title Akt Activation Correlates with Snail Expression and Potentially Determines the Recurrence of Prostate Cancer in Patients at Stage T2 after a Radical Prostatectomy
title_full Akt Activation Correlates with Snail Expression and Potentially Determines the Recurrence of Prostate Cancer in Patients at Stage T2 after a Radical Prostatectomy
title_fullStr Akt Activation Correlates with Snail Expression and Potentially Determines the Recurrence of Prostate Cancer in Patients at Stage T2 after a Radical Prostatectomy
title_full_unstemmed Akt Activation Correlates with Snail Expression and Potentially Determines the Recurrence of Prostate Cancer in Patients at Stage T2 after a Radical Prostatectomy
title_short Akt Activation Correlates with Snail Expression and Potentially Determines the Recurrence of Prostate Cancer in Patients at Stage T2 after a Radical Prostatectomy
title_sort akt activation correlates with snail expression and potentially determines the recurrence of prostate cancer in patients at stage t2 after a radical prostatectomy
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5000592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27455254
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms17081194
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