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Differential expression of trypsin in human ovarian carcinomas and low-malignant-potential tumors.

Abstract
It is widely recognized that matrix metalloproteinases and serine proteinases play an important role in cancer invasion and metastasis. We have reported that trypsin is synthesized in ovarian carcinomas as well as in some other types of cancers. In general, ovarian cancers easily tend to invade, metastasize, and spread widely into the peritoneal cavity. However, low-malignant-potential (LMP, borderline tumor) ovarian tumors are known to have limited malignant potential for progression, although microinvasion and distant metastasis have been reported among them. To analyze the relationship between varied degrees of trypsin expression and malignant behavior of ovarian tumors, immunohistochemical studies with monoclonal antibodies to human trypsin and clinicopathologic analysis were performed in human ovarian carcinomas, low-malignant-potential tumors, and benign cystadenomas. Thirteen (44.8%) cases of 29 ovarian carcinomas showed prominent trypsin expression, while only 2 (18.2%) cases of 11 LMP ovarian tumors demonstrated low levels of expression. Benign tumors and normal ovaries did not show any positivity for trypsin. These data suggest that tumor-derived heterotropic trypsin may be associated with ovarian tumors in parallel with malignant potential or behavior such as invasiveness or metastasis. At least in some ovarian carcinomas, prominent stromal invasion or metastasis might require the acquisition of or association with tumor-derived trypsin production.
AuthorsF Hirahara, E Miyagi, Y Nagashima, Y Miyagi, H Yasumitsu, N Koshikawa, Y Nakatani, T Nakazawa, K Udagawa, H Kitamura, H Minaguchi, K Miyazaki
JournalGynecologic oncology (Gynecol Oncol) Vol. 68 Issue 2 Pg. 162-5 (Feb 1998) ISSN: 0090-8258 [Print] United States
PMID9514801 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Trypsin
Topics
  • Female
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
  • Humans
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness
  • Ovarian Neoplasms (enzymology, pathology)
  • Trypsin (analysis)

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