Apolipoprotein D expression in benign and malignant prostate tissues.
BACKGROUND
Apolipoprotein D (ApoD), a protein component of the human plasma lipid transport system, is an androgen regulated protein in both breast and prostate cancer cell lines.


METHODS
Here we examined, by immunohistochemical assay, the ApoD expression in normal, benign and malignant prostate tissues.


RESULTS
ApoD was detected in the two analyzed normal prostate tissues, in 16 (94.1%) of 17 benign prostatic hyperplasias, and in 36 (63.1%) of 57 prostate carcinomas. In prostate carcinomas, ApoD immunostaining values did not show significant relationship neither with age of the patients, stage and histologic grade of the tumors, nor with preoperative serum levels of prostatic specific antigen (PSA). However, ApoD-negative immunostaining predicted shorter survival duration in the subgroup of 46 patients with nonresectable prostate cancer (p = 0.02).


CONCLUSIONS
Our results led us to consider that Apo D expression by prostate carcinomas migth be of clinical usefulness for identificating lesions with different evolution.
Rodríguez
J C
JC
Servicio de Cirugía General Hospital de Jove, Avda. Eduardo Castro s/n 33290 Gijón, Spain.
Díaz
M
M
González
L O
LO
Sánchez
J
J
Sánchez
M T
MT
Merino
A M
AM
Vizoso
F
F
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001053:Apolipoproteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D053399:Apolipoproteins D; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011467:Prostate / Q000378:metabolism*; D011470:Prostatic Hyperplasia / Q000378:metabolism; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000401:mortality; D013997:Time Factors
D001053:Apolipoproteins; D053399:Apolipoproteins D; D015415:Biomarkers