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Wen-Yong Wang, Zhi-Pei Zhang, Fu-Cheng Ma, Qing-Guo Yan, Yi-Ling Zhao, Department of Pathology, Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710033, Shannxi Province, China
Hong-Wei Tang, Bin Han, Yan-Hong Gao, Department of Gastroenterology, General Hospital of Chinese People's Armed Police Forces, Beijing 100039, China
Supported by: National Natural Science Foundation, No. 39270744.
Correspondence to: Wen-Yong Wang, Department of Pathology, Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, 169 Changle West Road, Xi'an 710033, Shannxi Province, China. wlwang@fmmu.edu.cn
Received: January 17, 2005 Revised: March 1, 2005 Accepted: March 3, 2005 Published online: May 15, 2005
AIM: To investigate the expression of Bag-1 and Bcl-2 protein and its clinical significance in gastric cancer (GC).
METHODS: Immunohistochemistry was used to detect the expressison of Bag-1 and Bcl-2 protein in 92 patients with gastric cancer and 40 normal tissues as control.
RESULTS: Compared with normal mucosa, Bag-1 and Bcl-2 were over-expressed in gastric cancerous tissues (60.9% vs 7.5%, 72.8% vs 10%, P<0.01). The expression of Bcl-2 protein was significantly correlated with the differentiation degree (rs = 0.513, P<0.05) and the expression of Bag-1 was significantly associated with Bcl-2 level in gastric cancer (rs = 0.522, P<0.01).
CONCLUSION: The over-expression of Bcl-2 leads to uncontrolled growth and unceasingly increases of GC cells by accelerating cell transformation and proliferation. Bag-1 promotes the function of Bcl-2 and co-expression of Bag-1 and Bcl-2 may mean poor prognosis of GC patients.
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