Carcinogenesis, Vol 18, 1841-1845, Copyright © 1997 by Oxford University Press
A Rajnakova, PM Goh, ST Chan, SS Ngoi, A Alponat and S Moochhala
The present study investigated the expression and distribution of three
isoforms of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) in different anatomical regions of
the human stomach and in gastric neoplastic tissues by immunohistochemistry
using specific antibodies. Intracellular localization of individual
isoenzymes of NOS was detected in normal gastric mucosa. Gastric cancer
tissues had a marked reduction of all three NOS isoforms expression. The
expression of the endothelial NOS, neuronal NOS and inducible NOS in the
tumor tissue was significantly lower than in normal gastric mucosa (P =
0.01, P = 0.02, P < 0.01, respectively). In the tumor tissue the
expression of inducible NOS was significantly lower than the expression of
both constitutive forms of NOS (P < 0.01). There was a tendency to
higher expression of both constitutive forms of NOS in earlier stages T2 of
the tumor compared to advanced T4 tumor. In contrast, the expression of
inducible NOS was higher than in the advanced T4 tumor than in the earlier
stages T2 of the tumor. The mapping of the expression of endothelial NOS,
neuronal NOS and inducible NOS in human stomach showed higher expression of
NOS isoforms in the distal third than in the proximal third of the stomach
(P = 0.03, P = 0.04, P = 0.01, respectively). We conclude that there is
greater expression of NOS in the stomach corpus and in antrum than in the
proximal third of the normal human stomach mirroring the anatomical
predilection of common pathological changes in this part of the human
stomach. Furthermore, there was loss of the expression of individual
isoenzymes in gastric neoplasms.
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