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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-2-2
pubmed:abstractText
Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the tongue is one of the most common cancers encountered in India, due to the prevalent habits of tobacco chewing and smoking. Up to 40% of the early stage tumours (clinical N0 M0) presenting at the Tata Memorial Hospital have occult cervical lymph node metastasis. Therefore, features in the primary tumour that would predict metastasis would be very useful for designing therapeutic approaches. Hence, we aimed at detecting genotypic markers of the metastatic sub-clones within the heterogeneous primary tumour population. We studied the differential expression of mRNAs between the primary tumour samples of SCC of the oral tongue and their metastasis by differential display analysis and identified a gene, FABP5, coding for Epidermal fatty acid binding protein (E-FABP-GenBank Accession ). Its expression was up to 4-fold higher in the primary tumours (67%) as compared to the corresponding metastatic lymph nodes by northern blot analysis.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1368-8375
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
43
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
27-32
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Metastasis of squamous cell carcinoma of the oral tongue is associated with down-regulation of epidermal fatty acid binding protein (E-FABP).
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Dr. Ernest Borges Road, Parel, Mumbai 400 012, India. umaramnathan@hotmail.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't