Avaliação da expressão de proteínas da via de hipóxia em carcinoma epidermoide de cavidade oral : relação com o tabagismo, com as características clínicopatológicas e prognósticas

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Peterle, Gabriela Tonini
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo; BR; Mestrado em Biotecnologia; Centro de Ciências da Saúde; UFES; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biotecnologia
• Palavras-chave em Português: Biotecnologia; Carcinoma de células escamosas; Boca; Imuno-histoquímica; Fator A de crescimento do endotélio vascular; Inibidor 1 de ativador de plasminogênio; 61
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/1890

Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC) is a significant cause of mortality and morbidity and is mainly related to the use of alcohol and tobacco. Some genetic markers of treatment response and clinical evolution have been identified for this carcinoma, such as HIF1α, which promotes transcription of more than 100 genes involved in cell hypoxia response, among these: CA IX, PAI-1 and VEGF. In order to observe the influence of these proteins in tumor clinicopathological and prognostic features, as well as observe the activity of the constituents of tobacco in hypoxic mechanism, a semi-quantitative analysis of 52 patients with oral cancer was performed, by means of immunohistochemistry, being the statistical calculations and graphics performed by Epi Info® v3.4.3, 2007. The frequency of CA-IX positive expression confirmed the existence of biological differences between the negative and positive expressions of protein (p=0.027). Furthermore, the cytoplasmic positive expression showed a significant relationship with the occurrence of regional lymph node metastases (p=0.025) and CA-IX membrane negative expression was predominant in cases with intense inflammatory infiltrate (p=0.044). Regarding to the survival curves, the CA-IX weak and strong expression of membrane showed significance with respect to the Local Disease-Free Survival (p=0.038), whereas positive and negative cytoplasmic protein expressions were significant for Disease Specific Survival (p=0.022). Multivariate analysis confirmed the cytoplasmic CA-IX expression as a risk factor for the occurrence of disease specific death, with approximately 3-fold increased risk (HR=2.84, CI=1.02-7.87). The cytoplasmic expression level of PAI-1 showed significant correlation with the degree of tumor differentiation (p=0.027) and both the cytoplasmic expressions and positive membrane were associated with mild infiltration (p=0.013, p=0.033, respectively). Concerning to prognostic characteristics, PAI-1 positive and negative membrane expression showed a significant association with local relapse (p=0.027). Moreover, multivariate analysis confirmed the PAI-1 positive membrane expression of as a risk factor for the occurrence of this recurrence, with approximately 14-fold increased risk (OR=14.4, CI=1.40-150.01). The degree of tumor differentiation was also significantly associated with VEGF negative and positive cytoplasmic expression (p=0.035) and a relationship between the presence of inflammatory infiltrate and the weak and strong positive expression of the protein (p=0.038) was observed. Finally, statistical significance between the smoking habit and the CA-IX, PAI-1 and VEGF expression of were not found, but, it is believed that this result was due to the composition of the work casuistry. Thus, the search for biomarkers for OSCC is a challenge which must be faced by research groups, in order to elucidate mechanisms of tumorigenesis that are not yet understood.