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A Simple Bioassay for the Evaluation of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factors
Published on: March 15, 2016
Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-C and VEGF-D in early gastric carcinoma: correlation with
Seiji Onogawa1, Yasuhiko Kitadai, Toru Amioka
1Department of Medicine and Molecular Science, Hiroshima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1-2-3, Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan.
Abstract:
In this study, we investigated whether expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-C and/or VEGF-D correlates with clinicopathological features of human gastric carcinoma. We immunohistochemically examined the expression of VEGF-C and VEGF-D in 140 archival surgical specimens of submucosally invasive gastric carcinoma. Of these specimens, 32 (22.9%) and 12 (8.6%) showed intense VEGF-C and VEGF-D immunoreactivity in cancer cells, respectively. VEGF-C immunoreactivity was associated with histological type, lymphatic invasion, lymph node metastasis, and microvessel density. No association was identified between VEGF-D immunoreactivity and clinicopathological variables. These results suggest that VEGF-C is a dominant regulator of lymphangiogenesis in early-stage human gastric carcinoma.
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