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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-5-29
pubmed:abstractText
Although measures of colonic cell proliferation are being used as potential intermediate markers in chemoprevention studies, measurement standardization is still ongoing. This study was designed to assess the reproducibility of the labeling index quantification, as measured by bromodeoxyuridine, across four laboratories experienced in its use. Each institution submitted 10 slides, with one circled area of each slide to be scored. Each site followed its standard procedures for scoring colonic crypts; no attempts to standardize these procedures were made. There was high concordance among the laboratories on whether scorable crypts were present on a particular slide, but only two pairs of laboratories demonstrated agreement statistically greater than that predicted by chance. The overall difference among the sites on the number of scorable crypts was marginally significant (P = 0.083), and there was a highly significant overall difference in the magnitude of the labeling index (P < 0.0001). Sites 1 and 2 tended to have similar results, as did sites 3 and 4, most likely due to common training. Even with these discrepancies, high correlation (r > 0.75) was observed among the reported labeling index values for each pair of laboratories. Without standardized training, these laboratories may differ in the crypts considered appropriate for counting and in whether cells are counted as labeled or unlabeled. These results suggest that standardized training in scoring across all sites performing labeling index determinations is required to assure reproducibility across sites or studies. These results may also help explain discrepancies in the average values of the labeling index reported in the literature.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1055-9965
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
5
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
349-53
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Reproducibility of the measurement of colonic proliferation using bromodeoxyuridine across laboratories.
pubmed:affiliation
Arizona Cancer Center, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson 85724, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Multicenter Study