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Prognostic Significance of Osteopontin Expression in Human Gastric Carcinoma

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Abstract

Background

Osteopontin (OPN) is a secreted, integrin-binding glycophosphoprotein that has been implicated in the progression of various solid tumors. To evaluate the clinical significance of OPN in gastric carcinoma, we investigated OPN expression in resected tumors.

Methods

Expression of OPN protein by gastric cancer cells was evaluated using western blot analysis. OPN messenger RNA (mRNA) expression in 18 gastric cancers was compared with that in the corresponding normal gastric epithelium by semiquantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Paraffin sections of tumors from 295 patients with gastric cancer were also investigated using immunohistochemistry.

Results

All four gastric cancer cell lines analyzed using western blotting had almost the same level of OPN protein expression as the positive control (HeLa cells). OPN mRNA was upregulated in 83% (15/18) of the tumors studied. On immunohistochemical staining, 90 tumors were classified as negative (−), whereas 205 were classified as positive (1+, 2+, or 3+). The level of OPN protein expression was significantly associated with the patient’s age (p = 0.04), tumor depth (p = 0.03), histological grade (p = 0.008), and hematogenous metastasis (p = 0.007). Kaplan–Meier analysis showed that OPN positivity was significantly associated with a shorter survival time (p = 0.027). Furthermore, multivariate analysis revealed that OPN positivity was an independent risk factor for hematogenous metastasis (p = 0.034).

Conclusions

The present findings suggest that increased tumor expression of OPN is an important determinant of shorter survival time and that OPN positivity may be useful for predicting the risk of hematogenous metastasis in gastric cancer patients.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank Mrs Sakiko Shimada for her technical assistance with the immunohistochemistry studies. The authors also thank Mr Jonathan Broome for his support in proofreading the manuscript. This work was supported in part by a grant-in-aid from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Grant 14370385).

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  1. Department of Surgery, Kyoto University, Kawaracho Shogoin Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan

    Motoshige Higashiyama MD & Eiji Tanaka MD, PhD

  2. Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1503 E Jefferson St. Rm 106, Baltimore, MD, 21231, USA

    Tetsuo Ito MD, PhD

  3. First Department of Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-cho 1-1, Nishinomiya, 663-8501, Japan

    Yutaka Shimada MD, PhD, FACS

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Higashiyama, M., Ito, T., Tanaka, E. et al. Prognostic Significance of Osteopontin Expression in Human Gastric Carcinoma. Ann Surg Oncol 14, 3419–3427 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-007-9564-8

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