title: Expression of twist gene in primary liver cancer.
abstract: In order to investigate the possibility of overexpression of Twist in primary liver cancer (PLC), the Twist expression was detected by using immunohistochemical analysis and RT-PCR assay in 45 patients with PLC. Control tissues were obtained from 9 patients with liver hemangioma. It was found that in 36 (80.0%) out of 45 PLC patients, cancerous regions showed positive cytoplasm and nucleus staining for Twist with a diffuse pattern. In noncancerous adjacent areas and control liver tissues, the expression of Twist was 57.8% and 22.2% respectively. The results of RT-PCR assay revealed that the expression of Twist was stronger in the cancerous tissues than that in the noncancerous adjacent tissues. It was suggested that the expression of Twist was up-regulated in PLC, which play an important role in the progression of PLC.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hepatic Surgery Center, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China. jxuapr@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Xiaoping
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009687:Nuclear Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D051879:Twist-Related Protein 1 / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D015854:Up-Regulation; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D009687:Nuclear Proteins; C103173:TWIST1 protein, human; D051879:Twist-Related Protein 1