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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Rakesh Heer, David Douglas, Dr Marie Mathers, Professor Craig Robson, Professor Hing Leung
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Over-expression of fibroblast growth factor 8 (FGF8) in human prostate cancer is associated with clinically aggressive disease. Among different members of the FGF family, FGF17 and FGF8 share high sequence homology and have similar patterns of expression during embryogenesis. In this study, the clinical significance of FGF17 expression and its in vitro function in prostate cancer cells were tested. Forty resected prostate specimens from patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH, n = 12) and prostate cancer (CaP, n = 28; Gleason sum scores 3-10) were studied using semi-quantitative RT-PCR. In addition, 85 cases of CaP (Gleason sum scores 5-9) and 20 cases of BPH were examined using immunohistochemistry and findings were correlated with clinical parameters. In vitro experiments using prostate cancer cell lines examined the functional significance of FGF17 in prostate cancer. These studies revealed a significant linear correlation between increasing Gleason sum scores and FGF17 expression using both immunohistochemistry (p < 0.0001, p = 0.99) and RT-PCR (p = 0.008, p = 0.99). Immunohistochemistry demonstrated upregulation of FGF17 in CaP compared with BPH (p < 0.0001) and, when comparing high-grade CaP (Gleason sum score 7-10) with BPH, RT-PCR showed a fourfold upregulation of FGF17 mRNA expression (p < 0.0001). Men with tumours displaying high levels of FGF17 expression had a worse outcome on survival analysis (p = 0.044) and a higher risk of progression with metastases (p < 0.0001). Proliferation assays showed low-dose recombinant (r) FGF17 (1 ng/ml) to be a more potent mitogen than rFGF1 and rFGF8 in prostate cancer cell lines (LNCaP, DU145, and PC3M) (p < 0.001). Furthermore, FGF8 was shown to induce expression of FGF17 in these cell lines. These data support a role for FGF17, and a model of co-expression of multiple FGFs, with FGF17 as a potential mediator of FGF8 function, in human prostate carcinogenesis. Copyright © 2004 Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Author(s): Heer, R., Douglas, D. A., Mathers, M. E., Robson, C. N., Leung, H. Y.
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Pathology
Year: 2004
Volume: 204
Issue: 5
Pages: 578-586
Print publication date: 01/12/2004
ISSN (print): 0022-3417
ISSN (electronic): 1096-9896
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/path.1668
DOI: 10.1002/path.1668
PubMed id: 15538740
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