PMID: 7536188Jan 1, 1995Paper

Expression of cytokeratin-mRNAs in squamous-cell carcinoma and balloon-cell formation of human oesophageal epithelium

The Histochemical Journal
A Viaene, J H Baert

Abstract

Using digoxigenin-labelled cRNA probes, relationships between morphological characteristics and in situ hybridization for cytokeratin (CK)-mRNAs were analysed in cases of squamous-cell carcinoma of variable differentiation and in balloon-cell formation within the oesophageal mucosa. The present results were correlated to our previous findings on normal oesophageal epithelium. Our results from in situ hybridization study on oesophageal squamous-cell carcinoma provide strong evidence that changes in CK expression occur with differences in malignant potential. Cells of poorly differentiated carcinoma lose an ability to produce CK-mRNAs characteristic of their normal progenitor cells. Moderately differentiated and, still more pronounced, well differentiated carcinoma cells retain an ability to produce CKs characteristic of their tissue of origin (CK 6, CK 14, CK 15 and CK 19). Furthermore, well differentiated carcinoma cells may also gain an ability to synthesize new types of CKs that are not characteristic of the normal oesophageal epithelium (CK 8 and CK 18 characteristic of most simple epithelia, and CK 10 characteristic of keratinizing epithelia). Moreover, some oesophageal CK-genes are expressed in an obviously higher amount (...Continue Reading

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