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Co-expression of CXCR4 and CD133 in gastric neoplastic tissue and their correlation with clinicopathological factors and prognosis in gastric cancer
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Purpose: Worldwide Gastric carcinoma considered as the second most common cause of cancer related death. Cancer stem cell plays significant role in prognosis and invasion of gastric cancer. CXCR4 is a chemokine receptor and plays an important role in self renewal, differentiation potential, and cell adhesion of cancer stem cell (CSC). On the other hand CD133 is a cell surface glycoprotein and could serve as a prognostic indicator for tumor re-growth, malignant progression, and patient survival. The aim of this study was to establish the expression pattern of CXCR4 and CD133 in gastric cancer tissues; and their correlation with clinicopathological factors like age and gender of patients, position, size and depth of tumor, lymphatic invasion and node metastasis.
Methods: Expression of CXCR4 and CD133 proteins were assessed by immunohistochemical and immunofluorescence staining of paraffin–embedded tissues, and followed by RT-PCR in 90 tumors (observed group) and 30 normal gastric samples. The clinical pathological data was statistically analyzed by chi-square methods.
Results: The positive rate of CXCR4 and CD133 expression in the observed group was 94.44 (85/90) and 95.55 (86/90) respectively. The expression of CXCR4 and CD133 were correlated with age and gender of patients, and position, size, & depth of the tumor, lymphatic invasion and node metastasis (p < 0.05). While CXCR4 was positive, CD133 had a positive rate of 92.22% but the positive rate was 2.22% when CXCR4 expression was negative (χ2 = 58.657; p < 0.001).
Conclusion: Overall this data suggests that increased expression of CXCR4 and CD133 might be attributed with disease progression and malignant transformation of gastric epithelium cells. A significant correlation was found in between CXCR4 and CD133 expression and their co-expression may play significant role in invasiveness of gastric cancer.
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