title: Inducible nitric oxide synthase expression correlates with angiogenesis, lymphangiogenesis, and poor prognosis in gastric cancer patients.
abstract: Increased nitric oxide synthase expression plays a key role in tumor progression. To examine inducible nitric oxide synthase expression and its correlation with clinical variables, such as tumor progression, angiogenesis, lymphangiogenesis, and prognosis in gastric cancer, we studied inducible nitric oxide synthase expression in gastric cancer samples from 211 patients with 5-year follow-up. CD105 and D2-40 were adopted as biomarkers for tumor angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis, respectively. Inducible nitric oxide synthase staining was mainly found in the cytoplasm of gastric cancer tumor cells. Positive inducible nitric oxide synthase immunoreactivity was seen in 54.03% of gastric cancer specimens, which was correlated with lymph node metastasis, vascular invasion, distant metastasis, and TNM stage. Compared with inducible nitric oxide synthase negative patients, inducible nitric oxide synthase-positive patients had significantly shorter survival times and higher microvessel density and lymphatic vessel density. Intratumor and peritumor blood microvessel density and lymphatic vessel density correlated with inducible nitric oxide synthase expression (Spearman ρ test, P < .05). We conclude that inducible nitric oxide synthase expression correlates with lymph node metastasis, vascular invasion, distant metastasis, TNM stage, and poor survival rate in gastric cancer. We propose that synthesized inducible nitric oxide synthase increases angiogenesis, and lymphangiogenesis thus promotes tumor progression. Inducible nitric oxide synthase expression may be a good biomarker for poor prognosis in gastric cancer.
authors.affiliation: Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, 325035, China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xu-Jun
authors.initials: XJ
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Ying-Yu
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Hui-Ju
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ying-Jie
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.forename: Zhong-Sheng
authors.initials: ZS
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Zai-Yuan
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: Hou-Quan
authors.initials: HQ
authors.lastname: Tao
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015703:Antigens, CD / Q000096:biosynthesis; D000071063:Endoglin; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D042583:Lymphangiogenesis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009389:Neovascularization, Pathologic; D052247:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II; D011379:Prognosis; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000096:biosynthesis; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000098:blood supply / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D015703:Antigens, CD; C064206:ENG protein, human; D000071063:Endoglin; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; C496319:NOS2 protein, human; D052247:Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II