PMID: 9444363Jan 28, 1998Paper

Immunohistochemical expression of P-glycoprotein and glutathione S-transferases in cerebral gliomas and response to chemotherapy

Acta Neuropathologica
P von BossanyiE Kirches

Abstract

The expression of the drug resistance-related proteins glutathione S-transferases (GST) and P-glycoprotein (Pgp) was analyzed quantitatively in samples of 53 astrocytic gliomas (eight WHO grade 1, 11 WHO grade 2, 9 WHO grade 3 and 25 glioblastomas, WHO grade 4). Sections of these tumors were immunohistochemically stained with antibodies to Pgp (MDR1-gene product) and to GST subclasses alpha, mu and pi. Pgp expression was not detected in tumor cells of the majority of low-grade astrocytomas (69%) and the percentage of Pgp stained cells generally increased with tumor grade. However, 4 of the 34 malignant gliomas were negative. Many neoplastic cells of most tumors were dominantly stained for GST-pi. The other two subclasses were expressed in a less consistent fashion with no linear correlation to grading. Grade 2 astrocytomas exhibited the highest percentage of cells with GST expression. GST-alpha was absent in 9 tumors, GST-mu in 8 and GST-pi in 4. Four tumors showed no expression of any GST subclass or Pgp in neoplastic cells. Of 13 patients 5 with a more favorable clinical course after radiation and chemotherapy had a lower percentage of neoplastic cells immunostained for Pgp and the three GST subclasses than 8 patients with a ...Continue Reading

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