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Using polymerase chain reaction to human papillomavirus in oral and pharyngolaryngeal carcinomas
I Alvarez Alvarez1, P Sanchez Lazo, S Ramos Gonzalez
1Department of Otorhinology, Complejo Hospitalario de León, Oviedo, Spain.
Purpose:
Increasingly, evidence has shown that human papillomavirus (HPV) plays a role in the induction of certain carcinomas. The presence of HPV sequences in 56 previously untreated oral and pharyngolaryngeal carcinomas was examined by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
Materials And Methods:
After DNA extraction, samples underwent 40 replication cycles with specific oligonucleotide primers corresponding to sequences from the E6 open-reading frame of HPV-6b, HPV-16, and HPV-18. To determine the E6 genomic integration, positive samples were processed with specific primers for the corresponding HPV L1 genes. Genomic HPV DNA clones into PBR 322 was used as positive control.
Results:
HPV E6 DNA of the 6b and 16 types was detected in 14 patients (25%). The L1 gene was not present.
Conclusion:
Detected HPV E6 DNA might be integrated into the cell genome in the positive cases as indicated by the absence of the L1 gene-coding for the viral capside. Histological and survival rates, were unrelated to the presence of HPV.