Frequency of Epstein Barr Virus Type 1 Among Nasopharyngeal Carcinomas in Iranian Patients
| Autor: | Shahani T; Health Research Institute, Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. Email:manoochehrmakvandi29@yahoo.com, Makvandi M, Samarbafzadeh A, Teimoori A, Ranjbar N, saki N, Nikakhlagh S, Neisi N, Hosseini Z, Pourrezaei S, Shabani A, Radmehr H, Mehravaran H, Kiani H, Haghi A |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP [Asian Pac J Cancer Prev] 2017 Feb 01; Vol. 18 (2), pp. 327-331. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Feb 01. |
| DOI: | 10.22034/APJCP.2017.18.2.327 |
| Abstrakt: | Background: Around 95% of the world’s population are infected with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which can persist latent in B lymphocytes and epithelial cells life-long. EBV has been linked with lymphoid and epithelial cancers and persistence of EBV infection in lymphoid or epithelial cells may result in virus-associated B-cell tumors or nasopharyngeal carcinomas (NPC). This study was conducted to determine the frequency of EBV DNA in nasopharyngeal carcinoma tissue of Iranian patients. Materials and methods: A total of 50 blocks of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue of NPCs from 38 (76 %) male and 12 (24%) female patients were collected from archives of Ahvaz hospitals. Sections were cut at 5 μm and DNA was extracted for detection of EBV DNA and EBV typing by mested PCR. DNA sequencing was performed to confirm PCR results. The distribution of EBV DNA was compared among WHO histological subtypes of NPC. Results: Some 3 female and 11 (22%) male NPC samples showed positive for EBV DNA type 1, 2/14(22.2%)WHO histological type II and 12/41(29.3%) WHO histological type III. Conclusions: The frequency of EBV DNA among NPCs in Iranian patients was found to be 28%, EBV type I predominating. Both WHO histological type II and III NPC subtypes demonstrated approximately the same detection prevalence. (Creative Commons Attribution License) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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