Pathological roles of c‑Met in bladder cancer: Association with cyclooxygenase‑2, heme oxygenase‑1, vascular endothelial growth factor‑A and programmed death ligand�1

Autor: Yasuyoshi Miyata, Hideki Sakai, Asato Otsubo, Tomohiro Matsuo, Yuichiro Nakamura, Tsutomu Yuno, Yuta Mukae, Kensuke Mitsunari, Kyohei Araki, Kojiro Ohba
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Oncology Letters
ISSN: 1792-1082
1792-1074
Popis: c-Met is a receptor tyrosine kinase that binds a specific ligand, namely hepatocyte growth factor (HGF). The HGF/c-Met system is important for malignant aggressiveness in various types of cancer, including bladder cancer (BC). However, although phosphorylation is the essential step required for biological activation of c-Met, pathological roles of phosphorylated c-Met at the clinical and molecular levels in patients with BC are not fully understood. In the present study, the expression levels of c-Met and the phosphorylation of two of its tyrosine residues (pY1234/pY1235 and pY1349) were immunohistochemically examined in 185 BC tissues. The associations between these expression levels and cancer cell invasion, metastasis, and cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), VEGF-A and programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) levels were investigated. c-Met was associated with muscle invasion (P=0.021), as well as the expression levels of HO-1 (P=0.028) and PD-L1 (P
Oncology Letters, 20(1), pp.135-144; 2020
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