title: Increased urokinase activity to antigen ratio in human renal-cell carcinoma.
abstract: Eighteen patients with renal-cell carcinoma have been investigated in an attempt to elucidate the ratio of active urokinase enzyme to urokinase antigen in the tumor and adjacent normal kidney. The tumor itself exhibited a significantly increased total fibrinolytic activity, an increase in the relative contribution of anti-urokinase IgG-inhibitable plasminogen activator activity and increased levels of urokinase antigen when compared to normal renal tissue. In tumor-adjacent tissue total fibrinolytic activity was also, but not significantly, increased, this increase being completely due to tissue-type plasminogen activator. Correlation of active urokinase-type plasminogen activator with urokinase antigen revealed that in tumor tissue the enzyme was present to more than 70% in its active form whereas in tumor-adjacent tissue and normal renal tissue only half of the enzyme appeared to be active. No correlation was obtained between urokinase antigen present in one of the 3 tissues investigated and plasma urokinase antigen.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000276:immunology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010960:Plasminogen Activators / Q000097:blood; D011863:Radioimmunoassay; D014568:Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator / Q000097:blood* / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D010960:Plasminogen Activators; D014568:Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator