title: Thymidine phosphorylase activity in tumor correlates with venous invasion.
abstract: Thymidine phosphorylase (dThdPase) is identical to platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor (PD-ECGF), an angiogenesis factor. We investigated the correlation between dThdPase activity in gastric cancer tissue and clinicopathological factors. Thirty-three cancer tissue specimens and 23 adjacent normal gastric mucosal specimens were obtained from surgery. Measurement of dThdPase activity was based on the amount of 5-fluorouracil formed from 5'-deoxy-5-fluorouridine by dThdPase. Mean dThdPase activity in cancer tissue was approximately 3.2 times higher than that in normal tissue. Cancerous tissues with venous invasion had about twice the dThdPase activity as cancerous tissues without venous invasion. Other clinicopathological features were not related to dThdPase activity. A correlation between dThdPase activity and immunosuppressive acidic protein level was observed (r = 0.532, P = 0.005). dThdPase activity in gastric cancer cells was found to be correlated with venous invasion, supporting previous findings that it plays a role in tumor angiogenesis.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, Osaka City University Medical School, 1-4-3 Asahimachi, Abeno-ku, Osaka 545-8585, Japan.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Nakata
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Onoda
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sowa
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000032:analysis; D005260:Female; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000201:enzymology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009389:Neovascularization, Pathologic / Q000201:enzymology / Q000473:pathology*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000098:blood supply / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000473:pathology; D013939:Thymidine Phosphorylase / Q000378:metabolism*; D014680:Veins / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D013939:Thymidine Phosphorylase