title: Identification of genes down-regulated during lung cancer progression: a cDNA array study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Lung cancer remains a major health challenge in the world. Survival for patients with stage I disease ranges between 40-70%. This suggests that a significant proportion of patients with stage I NSCLC may actually be under-staged.
  
  
  METHODS
  In order to identify genes relevant for lung cancer development, we carried out cDNA array experiments employing 64 consecutive patients (58 men and 6 women) with a median age of 58 years and stage 1 or stage 2 non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Basic cDNA array data identified 14 genes as differentially regulated in the two groups. Quantitative RT-PCR analysis confirmed an effective different transcriptional regulation of 8 out of 14 genes analyzed. The products of these genes belong to different functional protein types, such as extra-cellular matrix proteins and proteases (Decorin and MMP11), genes involved in DNA repair (XRCC1), regulator of angiogenesis (VEGF), cell cycle regulators (Cyclin D1) and tumor-suppressor genes (Semaphorin 3B, WNT-5A and retinoblastoma-related Rb2/p130). Some previously described differences in expression patterns were confirmed by our array data. In addition, we identified and validated for the first time the reduced expression level of some genes during lung cancer progression.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Comparative hybridization by means of cDNA arrays assisted in identifying a series of novel progression-associated changes in gene expression, confirming, at the same time, a number of previously described results.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics F, Cedrangolo, Section of Pathology, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy. maracampioni@yahoo.it
authors.forename: Mara
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Campioni
authors.forename: Vincenzo
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ambrogi
authors.forename: Eugenio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pompeo
authors.forename: Gennaro
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Citro
authors.forename: Mauro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Castelli
authors.forename: Enrico P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Spugnini
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gatti
authors.forename: Pierluigi
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cardelli
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lorenzon
authors.forename: Alfonso
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Baldi
authors.forename: Tommaso C
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Mineo
mesh_terms: D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D015536:Down-Regulation; D005260:Female; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D016147:Genes, Tumor Suppressor; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
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