title: Overexpression of neuritin in gastric cancer.
abstract: The aim of the present study was to investigate the expression of neuritin in gastric cancer tissues, in order to explore the association between the expression of neuritin and the occurrence and development of gastric cancer. Tissue specimens were collected from 58 patients with gastric cancer. Immunohistochemistry, western blot analysis and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) were used to determine the expression of neuritin in the gastric cancer and corresponding adjacent normal gastric tissues. The expression rate of neuritin in gastric cancer tissues was 96.55% (56/58), demonstrating no statistically significant difference from the expression rate in the adjacent normal tissues (94.83%) (P>0.05). However, the rate of strong neuritin expression in gastric cancer tissues (82.76%) was significantly increased compared with the rate in the adjacent normal tissues (15.52%) (P<0.05). Neuritin expression exhibited no correlation with the gender or age of patients, tumor-node-metastasis staging, tumor depth, presence of lymph node metastasis, histological or pathological type of the tumor or presence of distant metastasis (P>0.05). As determined by RT-PCR and western blot analysis, the mRNA expression of neuritin in gastric cancer tissues was markedly increased compared with the expression in the adjacent normal tissues. In conclusion, neuritin is highly expressed in gastric cancer tissues, suggesting that neuritin may act as a novel potential target for the treatment of gastric cancer.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Tongji Hospital at Huazhong Institute of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430030, P.R. China; Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang 832006, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Tongji Hospital at Huazhong Institute of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430030, P.R. China; Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang 832006, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Yongjun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang 832006, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Chen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.affiliation: Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang 832006, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Yongkang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang 832006, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Jianhua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Niu
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Tongji Hospital at Huazhong Institute of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430030, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Jianping
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gong
keywords: correlation; gastric cancer; neuritin; treatment