Inducible nitric oxide synthase expression correlates with angiogenesis, lymphangiogenesis, and poor prognosis in gastric cancer patients

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• 作者：Wei Zhang MD^a ; ^b ; ¹ ; Xu-Jun He MB^b ; ¹ ; Ying-Yu Ma MS^b ; ¹ ; Hui-Ju Wang MS^b ; Ying-Jie Xia MB^b ; Zhong-Sheng Zhao MS^c ; Zai-Yuan Ye MS^a ; ^b ; ^{zaiyuanye@163.com"" rel=""nofollow} ; Hou-Quan Tao MD^b ; ^d ; ^{taohouquan2008@yahoo.com.cn"" rel=""nofollow}
• 关键词：iNOS ; Gastric carcinoma ; MVD ; LVD ; Prognosis
• 刊名：Human Pathology
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：September 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：42
• 期：9
• 页码：1275-1282
• 全文大小：1431 K

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Increased nitric oxide synthase expression plays a key role in tumor progression. To examine inducible nitric oxide synthase expression and its correlation with clinical variables, such as tumor progression, angiogenesis, lymphangiogenesis, and prognosis in gastric cancer, we studied inducible nitric oxide synthase expression in gastric cancer samples from 211 patients with 5-year follow-up. CD105 and D2-40 were adopted as biomarkers for tumor angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis, respectively. Inducible nitric oxide synthase staining was mainly found in the cytoplasm of gastric cancer tumor cells. Positive inducible nitric oxide synthase immunoreactivity was seen in 54.03 % of gastric cancer specimens, which was correlated with lymph node metastasis, vascular invasion, distant metastasis, and TNM stage. Compared with inducible nitric oxide synthase negative patients, inducible nitric oxide synthase–positive patients had significantly shorter survival times and higher microvessel density and lymphatic vessel density. Intratumor and peritumor blood microvessel density and lymphatic vessel density correlated with inducible nitric oxide synthase expression (Spearman ρ test, P < .05). We conclude that inducible nitric oxide synthase expression correlates with lymph node metastasis, vascular invasion, distant metastasis, TNM stage, and poor survival rate in gastric cancer. We propose that synthesized inducible nitric oxide synthase increases angiogenesis, and lymphangiogenesis thus promotes tumor progression. Inducible nitric oxide synthase expression may be a good biomarker for poor prognosis in gastric cancer.