title: Sialyl Lewis(a) ganglioside in pancreatic cancer tissue correlates with the serum CA 19-9 level.
abstract: CA 19-9 ganglioside antigen was extracted from the tumors of 16 patients with pancreatic cancer and the antigen was confirmed by mass spectrometry to be a sialyl Lewis(a) ganglioside. Ductal adenocarcinomas from four patients, two whose Lewis blood phenotype was Le(a- b-), one with undifferentiated carcinoma, and one with an acinar cell carcinoma, did not contain detectable amounts of sialyl Le(a) ganglioside. A significant correlation was found between serum CA 19-9 levels and the recovery of ganglioside antigen from respective tumors, but not tumor burden.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery II, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hamanaka
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hamanaka
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Suzuki
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015295:Antigens, Tumor-Associated, Carbohydrate / Q000032:analysis; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000032:analysis* / Q000097:blood; D018395:CA-19-9 Antigen / Q000097:blood*; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002855:Chromatography, Thin Layer; D005260:Female; D005732:Gangliosides / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000737:chemistry*; D016339:Spectrometry, Mass, Fast Atom Bombardment
chemical_list: D015295:Antigens, Tumor-Associated, Carbohydrate; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D018395:CA-19-9 Antigen; D005732:Gangliosides; C064564:sialyl Le(a) ganglioside