Xu Yin,Wang Pu,Sheng Caifei,Li Jingwen,Zhang Anran,Shao Shunzi,Yu Xiaona,Zhang Haoxiang,Yan Wu,Xia Yiju,Fang Dianchun.Expression and clinicopathological significance of claudin 3 and 4 in esophageal squamous carcinoma and precancerous lesion[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2014,36(09):873-877.
Xu Yin,Wang Pu,Sheng Caifei,Li Jingwen,Zhang Anran,Shao Shunzi,Yu Xiaona,Zhang Haoxiang,Yan Wu,Xia Yiju,Fang Dianchun.Expression and clinicopathological significance of claudin 3 and 4 in esophageal squamous carcinoma and precancerous lesion[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2014,36(09):873-877.DOI:
Expression and clinicopathological significance of claudin 3 and 4 in esophageal squamous carcinoma and precancerous lesion
Objective To determine the expression of claudin 3 and claudin 4 in esophageal squamous carcinoma and its precancerous lesion
and investigate the clinicopathological s
ignificance of the expression. Methods Tissue microarray technology and immunohistochemical assay (Envision) were used to detect the expression of claudin 3 and 4 in 93 tissue samples of esophageal squamous carcinoma
20 samples of dysplasia
20 samples of esophagitis and 15 cases of normal esophageal mucosal tissues. Results Claudin 3 was expressed in only 1 case of normal esophageal mucosa (6.7%)
4 cases of esophagitis (20.0%)
6 cases of dysplasia (30.0%) and 40 cases of squamous carcinoma (43.0%). The positive rate was the highest in cancer tissue
and the lowest in normal esophageal tissue
with significant difference between them (
P
0.05). The rate was obviously higher in the cancer tissue than in normal tissue (
P
0.05)
but no difference was seen among the normal tissue
dysplasia and esophagitis tissue (
P
0.05). Claudin 4 expression was found in 5 cases of normal esophageal mucosa (33.3%)
7 cases of esophagitis (35.0%)
8 cases of dysplasia (40.0%) and 42 cases of squamous carcinoma (45.2%)
without significant difference among these groups (
P
0.05). The expression of claudin 3 and 4 was not associated with other clinicopathologic factors
such as sex
age
tumor size
pathological grade and infiltration (
P
0.05)
but obviously negatively associated with lymphatic metastasis and patient survival (
P
0.05). The expression of claudin 3 and 4 was significantly correlated with each other (Chi-sqaure=8.520
K=0.302
P
=0.004)
but had no significant difference in esophageal squamous carcinoma (
P
0.05). Kaplan-Meier survival analysis showed that the survival rate in patients with claudin3 and 4 expression was significantly higher than those without (
P
0.05). Conclusion Claudin 3 may participate in the occurrence of esophageal squamous carcinoma. Down-regulation of claudin 3 and 4 is associated with lymphatic metastasis in esophageal squamous carcinoma
and they might serve as potential markers for prognosis of
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