Autor: |
Angelique Flöter Rådestad, Atosa Estekizadeh, Huanhuan L Cui, Ourania N. Kostopoulou, Belghis Davoudi, Angelica Lindén Hirschberg, Joseph Carlson, Afsar Rahbar, Cecilia Söderberg-Naucler |
Jazyk: |
angličtina |
Rok vydání: |
2018 |
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Zdroj: |
Translational Oncology, Vol 11, Iss 6, Pp 1292-1300 (2018) |
Druh dokumentu: |
article |
ISSN: |
1936-5233 |
DOI: |
10.1016/j.tranon.2018.08.003 |
Popis: |
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) has been detected in various types of tumors. We studied the prevalence of HCMV in ovarian cancer and its relation to clinical outcome. Paraffin-embedded tissues obtained prospectively from 45 patients with ovarian cancer and 30 patients with benign ovarian cystadenoma were analyzed for expression of HCMV immediate-early protein (IE) and HCMV tegument protein (pp65) by immunohistochemistry. Plasma was analyzed for HCMV serology. HCMV-IgG levels were higher in patients with ovarian cancer or benign cystadenoma than in age-matched controls (P = .002, P |
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