MYB-QKI rearrangement in angiocentric glioma.

Aims: To evaluate the occurrence and diagnostic value of MYB-QKI rearrangement status in angiocentric glioma (AG) in Chinese patients.

Materials And Methods: 27 cases were collected from six hospitals, followed by a retrospective analysis of clinical, radiological, and morphological data. MYB protein expression was assessed by immunohistochemical staining (IHC), and the MYB-QKI rearrangement was detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH).

Papillary Solitary Fibrous Tumor/Hemangiopericytoma: An Uncommon Morphological Form With NAB2-STAT6 Gene Fusion.

Solitary fibrous tumor/hemangiopericytomas (SFT/HPCs) are mesenchymal tumors characterized by "staghorn" blood vessels and collagen deposition. Little is known about SFT/HPCs with papillary architecture. We summarized the clinicopathologic features of 12 patients with papillary SFT/HPCs (8 males and 4 females; median age: 59 years), including 8 previously reported cases.

Adult hippocampal ganglioneuroblastoma: Case report and literature review.

Rationale: Intracranial ganglioneuroblastoma represents a rare subtype of primitive neuroectodermal tumor. Here, we report a hippocampal ganglioneuroblastoma and a literature review of cerebral anglioneuroblastoma is carried out.

Patient Concerns: We report a 16-year-old male patient presenting with absence seizure and high-infiltration hippocampal ganglioneuroblastoma.

Monitoring neoadjuvant therapy responses in rectal cancer using multimodal nonlinear optical microscopy.

Most patients with rectal cancer have a better prognosis after receiving neoadjuvant therapy because of its remarkable curative effect. However, no device delivers real-time histopathologic information on treatment response to help clinicians tailor individual therapeutic strategies. We assessed the potential of multimodal nonlinear optical microscopy to monitor therapeutic responses, including tumoral and stromal responses.

Evolution of DNA aptamers for malignant brain tumor gliosarcoma cell recognition and clinical tissue imaging.

Gliosarcoma, a variant of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), is a highly invasive malignant tumor. Unfortunately, this disease still marked by poor prognosis regardless of modern treatments. It is of great significance to discover specific molecular probes targeting gliosarcoma for early cancer diagnosis and therapy.

The Vascular Notch Ligands Delta-Like Ligand 4 (DLL4) and Jagged1 (JAG1) Have Opposing Correlations with Microvascularization but a Uniform Prognostic Effect in Primary Glioblastoma: A Preliminary Study.

Purpose: Delta-like ligand 4 (DLL4) and Jagged1 (JAG1), 2 vascular Notch ligands, are involved in the process of tumor angiogenesis. The present study investigates their relationship with microvascularization and the prognostic effect in primary glioblastoma.

Methods: Tumor tissues from 61 glioblastomas were analyzed using immunohistochemistry for DLL4/JAG1 expression and microvascular formations.

The vascular delta-like ligand-4 (DLL4)-Notch4 signaling correlates with angiogenesis in primary glioblastoma: an immunohistochemical study.

Delta-like ligand-4 (DLL4)-Notch signaling is known to play a pivotal role in the regulation of tumor angiogenesis. We had previously found that DLL4 was overexpressed, while Notch1 receptor, which binds to DLL4 during angiogenesis, was absent in the majority of human primary glioblastomas. Thus, DLL4-Notch signaling pathway in the regulation of tumor angiogenesis in primary glioblastoma remains unknown.

Correlation of high delta-like ligand 4 expression with peritumoral brain edema and its prediction of poor prognosis in patients with primary high-grade gliomas.

Object: Peritumoral brain edema (PTBE) is a common phenomenon associated with high-grade gliomas (HGGs). In this study, the authors investigated the expression of Notch delta-like ligand 4 (DLL4) and its correlation with PTBE and prognosis in patients with an HGG.

Methods: Tumors from 99 patients with HGG were analyzed for DLL4 expression using immunohistochemistry.

Multiphoton microscopy for tumor regression grading after neoadjuvant treatment for colorectal carcinoma.

Aim: To evaluate the feasibility of using multiphoton microscopy (MPM) to assess a tumor regression grading (TRG) system.

Methods: Fresh specimens from seven patients with colorectal carcinoma undergoing neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy at the Fujian Medical University Union Hospital were obtained immediately after proctectomy. Specimens were serially sectioned (10 µm thickness) and used for MPM or stained with hematoxylin and eosin for comparison.

Similar PDK1-AKT-mTOR pathway activation in balloon cells and dysmorphic neurons of type II focal cortical dysplasia with refractory epilepsy.

Dysmorphic neurons and balloon cells constitute the neuropathological hallmarks of type II focal cortical dysplasias (FCDs) with refractory epilepsy. The genesis of these cells may be critical to the histological findings in type II FCD. Recent work has shown enhanced activation of the mTOR cascade in both balloon cells and dysmorphic neurons, suggesting a common pathogenesis for these two neuropathological hallmarks.

Cell-density-dependent manifestation of partial characteristics for neuronal precursors in a newly established human gliosarcoma cell line.

Gliosarcoma cell line K308 was established from a primary tumor specimen removed from a 51-year-old male Han Chinese patient. Besides the typical characteristics of gliosarcoma cells, K308 cells express abundant glutaminase and can release large amount of glutamate. K308 exhibited cell-density-dependent expression of neuronal precursor markers, particularly nestin.

Classification of microvascular patterns via cluster analysis reveals their prognostic significance in glioblastoma.

There are limited researches focusing on microvascular patterns (MVPs) in human glioblastoma and their prognostic impact. We evaluated MVPs of 78 glioblastomas by CD34/periodic acid-Schiff dual staining and by cluster analysis of the percentage of microvascular area for distinct microvascular formations. The distribution of 5 types of basic microvascular formations, that is, microvascular sprouting (MS), vascular cluster (VC), vascular garland (VG), glomeruloid vascular proliferation (GVP), and vasculogenic mimicry (VM), was variable.

High Jagged1 expression is associated with poor outcome in primary glioblastoma.

Glioblastoma is a highly aggressive brain tumor. Aberrant Notch pathway has been implicated in the formation and progression of glioblastoma. The present study attempted to investigate the expression of Notch ligand Jagged1 and its association with patient outcome in primary glioblastoma.

Association of pSTAT3-VEGF signaling pathway with peritumoral edema in newly diagnosed glioblastoma: an immunohistochemical study.

It is well recognized that peritumoral edema is vasogenic cerebral edema in malignant glioma, and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) induced by phosphorylated signal transducer and activator of transcription factor 3 (pSTAT3) strongly contributes to tumor angiogenesis in glioblastoma. However, there is no study with regard to the correlation between pSTAT3 or VEGF and peritumoral edema. Such evidence may contribute to providing new targets for the management of peritumoral cerebral.

High delta-like ligand 4 (DLL4) is correlated with peritumoral brain edema and predicts poor prognosis in primary glioblastoma.

Delta-like ligand 4 (DLL4), 1 of the 5 known Notch ligands, is involved in a variety of tumor initiation and progression, particularly in the process of tumor angiogenesis. However, the clinical and prognostic significance of DLL4 in glioblastoma have not been fully elucidated.Tumor tissues from 69 glioblastoma patients were analyzed using immunohistochemistry for DLL4 expression.

STAT3 serine 727 phosphorylation influences clinical outcome in glioblastoma.

Besides STAT3 tyrosine 705 phosphorylation (pTyr705-STAT3), phosphorylation of STAT3 at serine 727 (pSer727-STAT3) is shown to contribute to tumorigenesis and be closely related with resistance to radiotherapy and chemotherapy in glioma, but there is currently no study regarding its relevance to prognosis in glioblastoma (GBM). Here, the expression of phosphorylated STAT3 was detected in tumor specimens from 88 patients with newly diagnosed GBM by immunohistochemistry, the Kaplan-Meier survival curve and COX proportional hazards regression model were applied to estimate its influences on progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS). Immunohistochemical assay showed elevated expression of pSer727-STAT3 in GBM compared with normal brain tissue.

STAT3 Tyr705 phosphorylation affects clinical outcome in patients with newly diagnosed supratentorial glioblastoma.

STAT3 tyrosine705 phosphorylation (p-STAT3, Tyr705), a molecular hub for several signal transduction pathways of glioma, plays a central role in glioblastoma (GBM) carcinogenesis and progression. However, it is still controversial whether p-STAT3 expression is associated with the clinical outcome of patients with glioblastoma. Such evidence would contribute to further illustrate whether STAT3 inhibition is suitable for clinical treatment.

[Activation of mTOR in maldeveloped balloon cells and dysmorphic neurons of type II focal cortical dysplasia].

Objective: To investigate whether mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) kinase was abnormally activated in maldeveloped balloon cells and dysmorphic neurons of focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) with refractory epilepsy.

Methods: A total of 12 archival cases of FCD typeIIwith medically intractable epilepsy treated between 2008 and 2010 were retrieved. Perilesional brain tissue was used as control specimens (n = 8).

[Clinicopathologic features of delayed radiation-induced brain injury after radiotherapy for brain tumor].

Objective: To study the clinicopathologic features of delayed radiation-induced brain injury after radiotherapy for brain tumor.

Methods: The clinical, histopathologic and immunohistochemical features of 9 cases with delayed radiation-induced injury were evaluated.

Results: The disease occurred from 6 months to 12 years after radiotherapy and often presented with headache and muscle weakness.

[Relationship between the expression of occludin and tumor genesis and development in the gastric carcinoma].

Aim: to investigate the expression of occludin mRNA and protein in the gastric cancer, to seek the relationship between the expression of occludin and tumor genesis and development.

Methods: the expression of occludin was examined in the gastric carcinoma by immunohistochemical technique with the tissue microarray and by real time fluorescence quantitative PCR, and to study the association of occludin expression and clinicopathological features in the gastric adenocarcinomas.

Results: the expression levels of occludin protein in the paraneoplastic normal gastric mucosa is obviously higher than that in the carcinoma(96.

[Distribution and pollution character of heavy metals in the surface sediments of Liao River].

The concentrations of 7 heavy metals (Ni, Cu, Cr, Pb, Cd, As, Hg) and organic matters in the surface sediments of Liao River were determined by atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) and atomic fluorescence spectrometry (AFS), and sediments pollution assessment was carried out using geoaccumulation index. Moreover, the sources of heavy metal contamination were estimated with the principal component analysis (PCA). The results demonstrate that the heavy metal concentrations of Liao River are markedly higher than that of Liao River in 1998 and lay at medium level compared with other rivers in China.

[Fourier transform infrared spectra analysis of nucleic acid in human breast tissue].

DNA molecular constitution is damaged to result in the inductive variation of base structure in female breast tissue under the influence of physical factors and chemical factors. The present research indicated that the FTIR spectra can reflect sensitively the change in the constitution. Our findings indicated that normal, benign and cancerous breast tissues are different in constitution and content of protein, nucleic acid and sugar, comparing the FTIR spectra, deconvolution spectra and date analysis.