1. Involvement of angiogenesis in cancer-associated acinar-to-ductal metaplasia lesion of pancreatic cancer invasive front.
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Fei, Shuang, Ohuchida, Kenoki, Kibe, Shin, Yan, Zilong, Iwamoto, Chika, Shinkawa, Tomohiko, Zhang, Bo, Kawata, Jun, Abe, Toshiya, Ideno, Noboru, Ikenaga, Naoki, Nakata, Kohei, Oda, Yoshinao, and Nakamura, Masafumi
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PANCREATIC cancer , *CANCER invasiveness , *METAPLASIA , *PANCREATIC intraepithelial neoplasia , *NEOVASCULARIZATION , *LIVER metastasis - Abstract
Purpose: This study aimed to demonstrate the involvement of angiogenesis in cancer-associated acinar-to-ductal metaplasia (CA-ADM) lesion of invasive front pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) and investigate the possible mechanism. Methods: Tissue samples from 128 patients with PDAC and 36 LSL-KrasG12D/+; LSL-Trp53R172H/+; Pdx-1-Cre mice were analyzed. Immunohistochemical assay was performed using HE, anti-CK19 and anti-amylase to confirm the presence of CA-ADM lesions, using anti-CD34 and anti-CD31 to measure microvessel density (MVD), and using anti-CD68, anti-CD163, anti-iNOS, or anti-MMP9 to evaluate the immune microenvironment. We performed multiplex immunohistochemical assay to detect the co-expression of MMP9 and CD68 on macrophage. We examined clinical outcomes and other clinicopathological factors to determine the significance of high-level MVD of CA-ADM on survival and liver metastasis. We performed tube formation assay to evaluate the effect of macrophage on angiogenic capacity in vitro. Results: Angiogenesis was significantly abundant in CA-ADM lesions compared with that in PDAC lesions in human and mouse tissues. High-level MVD in CA-ADM lesions was an independent predictor of poor prognosis (P = 0.0047) and the recurrence of liver metastasis (P = 0.0027). More CD68-positive and CD163-positive macrophages were detected in CA-ADM lesions than in PDAC. The percentage of CD68-positive macrophages was positively correlated with MVD in CA-ADM lesions. Multiplex-immunostaining revealed that MMP9 was expressed in CD68-positive macrophages of CA-ADM lesions. In CA-ADM lesions, the percentage of macrophages was positively correlated with MMP9 expression, which positively correlated with microvessel density. Conclusion: CA-ADM related angiogenesis is a promising predictive marker for poor prognosis of PDAC and may provide an attractive therapeutic target for PDAC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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