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[Apurinic/apyrimidinic sites (AP)--stress oxidative marker--in normal and neoplastic human endometrium]
Dorota Przadka-Rabaniuk1, Krzysztof Postawski
1II Klinika Połoznictwa i Ginekologii WUM w Warszawie.
Objectives:
To evaluate apurinic/apyrimidinic sites (AP), one of the oxidative stress markers in normal and cancerous human endometrium and determine whether AP sites could be a molecular marker of endometrial cancer advancement.
Material And Methods:
AP sites were investigated in DNAs of 33 endometrial cancer (EC) and 20 noncancerous endometrial samples using Oxidative DNA Damage Kit Quantitative (Kamiya Biomedical Company).
Results:
Mean AP sites in noncancerous endometrium was 6.0 +/- 1.21 per 105 base pair. In EC group the mean AP sites level was greater than estimated in the reference group containing proliferative, secretory and hyperplastic endometrial samples (p < 0.05). There was no relation between AP sites and EC FIGO grading or the depth of the uterine wall neoplastic invasion.
Conclusions:
In EC mean AP sites level is greater than estimated in noncancerous endometrium. AP sites are not a molecular marker of EC advancement.