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MUC5B expression in gastric carcinoma: relationship with clinico-pathological parameters and with expression of mucins MUC1, MUC2, MUC5AC and MUC6

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Previous studies have shown that mucin expression can be used to evaluate differentiation patterns of gastric carcinoma: MUC5AC expression is associated with diffuse type and early gastric carcinomas, and MUC2 expression is associated with mucinous gastric carcinomas. The role played by MUC5B in the evaluation of differentiation and biological behaviour of gastric carcinoma is largely unknown. Our aim was to characterise the pattern of expression of mucins MUC1, MUC2, MUC5AC, MUC5B and MUC6 in a series of 50 gastric carcinomas to evaluate whether MUC5B expression was associated with the clinico-pathological characteristics of the cases and/or with the co-expression of other mucins. A panel of six monoclonal antibodies (HMFG1, SM3, PMH1, CLH2, EU-MUC5Ba and CLH5) was used to determine the expression of mucins (MUC1, MUC1 underglycosylated form, MUC2, MUC5B, MUC5AC and MUC6, respectively) using immunohistochemistry. Cases were considered positive if more than 5% of the cells expressed immunoreactivity for the several mucins evaluated. Our results showed that: (a) expression of MUC5B was observed in 11 cases (22.0%) and was associated with the “unclassified” histological type of gastric carcinoma according to Laurén (P=0.03) and with the absence of venous invasion (P=0.02); (b) in this series, MUC5B expression had no impact on survival of patients with gastric carcinoma; (c) the expression of MUC5B was associated with the co-expression of MUC5AC (P=0.02) and (d) none of the cases with the so-called complete intestinal phenotype of mucin expression expressed MUC5B.

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This work was supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and Programa Operacional Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovação do Quadro Comunitário de Apoio III (Project POCTI/CBO/39075/2001 and POCTI/CIBO/44598/2002) and European Union Concerted Action Contract BMH4-CT98–3222. We thank Dr. Joy Burchell and Prof. Joyce Taylor-Papdimitriou for providing antibodies HMFG1 and SM3.

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Pinto-de-Sousa, J., Reis, C.A., David, L. et al. MUC5B expression in gastric carcinoma: relationship with clinico-pathological parameters and with expression of mucins MUC1, MUC2, MUC5AC and MUC6. Virchows Arch 444, 224–230 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00428-003-0968-y

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