title: [Expression and clinical significance of stromelysin-3 in laryngeal cancer].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the role of expression of stromelysin-3 in laryngeal carcinoma and the relationship between stromelysin-3 expression and the invasion and metastasis of laryngeal cancer.
  
  
  METHODS
  The expression of stromelysin-3 in 63 samples with laryngeal carcinoma and 63 adjacent normal tissue were detected by immunohistochemistry. The mRNA expression of stromelysin-3 were examined by reverse transcript-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in 22 frozen specimens of laryngeal cancer and 22 adjacent normal tissue.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The immunochemistry showed the expression of stromelysin-3 in laryngeal cancer is much higher than that in adjacent normal tissue (P < 0.01), RT-PCR showed the expression of stromelysin-3 in laryngeal cancer was much higher than that in adjacent normal tissue (P < 0.01). The expression of stromelysin-3 in protein level was not only much higher in T3 + T4 group than that in T1 + T2 group (P < 0.01) but also much higher in nodal metastases group than that in the group without nodal metastases (P < 0.05). The mRNA expression of stromelysin-3 was higher in T3 +T4 group than that in T1 + T2 group (P < 0.05) and was higher in nodal metastases group than that in group without nodal metastases (P < 0.05). The expression of stromelysin-3 both in protein level and in mRNA level was not associated with different primary location and different histological grade of laryngeal cancer (P > 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The expression of stromelysin-3 was closely associated with the invasion and metastases of laryngeal carcinoma, it may be served as a marker in estimating the invasion and metastases potency of laryngeal cancer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Second Hospital, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730030, China. duanqiushuo@163.com
authors.forename: Shihong
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Duan
authors.forename: Yufen
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Guo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology*; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D053507:Matrix Metalloproteinase 11 / Q000378:metabolism*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness
chemical_list: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; C511771:MMP11 protein, human; D053507:Matrix Metalloproteinase 11