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Action and mechanism of Fas and Fas ligand in immune escape of gallbladder carcinoma.

Authors: Xu, LN  Zou, SQ  Wang, JM 
Citation: Xu LN, etal., World J Gastroenterol. 2005 Jun 28;11(24):3719-23.
RGD ID: 2317739
Pubmed: PMID:15968727   (View Abstract at PubMed)
PMCID: PMC4316023   (View Article at PubMed Central)

AIM: To study the role of Fas and Fas ligand (FasL) in biological behaviors of gallbladder carcinoma, and their correlated action and mechanism in tumor escape. METHODS: Streptavidin-biotin-peroxidase immunohistochemistry technique was used to study the expression of Fas and FasL protein in 26 gallbladder carcinoma tissues, 18 gallbladder adenoma tissues, 3 gallbladder dysplasia tissues and 20 chronic cholecystitis tissues. Apoptosis of the infiltrating lymphocytes in these tissues was studied by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT)-mediated dUTP nick-end labeling (TUNEL) method. Expression of both proteins and apoptosis of the tumor infiltrating lymphocytes in cancer tissues of primary foci was compared with clinicopathological features of gallbladder carcinoma. RESULTS: The positive rates of Fas were not significantly different among carcinoma, adenoma, dysplasia and chronic cholecystitis. The positive rate of FasL in carcinoma was significantly higher than that in chronic cholecystitis (chi(2) = 4.89, P<0.05). The apoptotic index (AI) in carcinoma was significantly higher than that in adenoma (t' = 4.19, P<0.01) and chronic cholecystitis (t' = 8.06, P<0.01). The AI was significantly lower in well-differentiated carcinoma and Nevin I-III carcinoma than that in poorly-differentiated carcinoma (t' = 2.63, P<0.05) and Nevin IV-V carcinoma (t' = 3.33, P<0.01). The confidence interval (CI) of infiltrating lymphocytes in adenoma, chronic cholecystitis, well-differentiated carcinoma and Nevin I-III carcinoma was very significantly lower than that in carcinoma (t' = 6.99, P<0.01), adenoma (t' = 3.66, P<0.01), poorly-differentiated carcinoma (t' = 5.31, P<0.01) and Nevin IV-V carcinoma (t' = 3.76, P<0.01), respectively. The CI of apoptosis of infiltrating lymphocytes in well-differentiated carcinoma was significantly lower than that in poorly-differentiated carcinoma (t = 2.52, P<0.05), and was not significantly lower in Nevin I-III carcinoma than in Nevin IV-V carcinoma (t = 1.42, P>0.05). Apoptosis of infiltrating lymphocytes was not discovered in adenoma and chronic cholecystitis. CONCLUSION: FasL expressed in gallbladder carcinoma cells permits tumor cells to escape from immune surveillance of organism by inducing apoptosis in infiltrating lymphocytes of carcinoma tissues. Up-regulation of FasL expression plays an important role in invasive depth, histological classification and metastasis of gallbladder carcinoma.

RGD Manual Disease Annotations    Click to see Annotation Detail View
TermQualifierEvidenceWithReferenceNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
Gallbladder Neoplasms disease_progressionIEP 2317739protein:increased expression:gallbladderRGD 
Gallbladder Neoplasms disease_progressionISOFASLG (Homo sapiens)2317739; 2317739protein:increased expression:gallbladderRGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Faslg  (Fas ligand)

Genes (Mus musculus)
Fasl  (Fas ligand)

Genes (Homo sapiens)
FASLG  (Fas ligand)


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