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Neoplasma Vol.63, No.1, p.93-98,2016

Title: Clinical significance of angiopoietin-like protein 3 expression in patients with glioblastoma
Author: P. F. WANG, H. L. LI, X. QI, K. YAO, S. HAN, N. LIU, Y. K. YANG, S. W. LI, C. X. YAN

Abstract: There is strong evidence that angiopoietin-like peptide family is involved in the invasiveness and metastasis of cancer. Angiopoietin-like protein 3 (ANGPTL3) is proven to be involved in angiogenesis and tumor development. However, there is no published data on the role ANGPLT3 plays in glioblastomas. The present study was conducted to examine ANGPLT3 proteins expression and its association with clinicopathological factors and prognosis in human glioblastomas. Immunohistochemistry was used to evaluate the expression of ANGPTL3, EGFR and VEGFR. We found that 33 cases (57.9%) that showed strong immunostaining for ANGPTL3 proteins. However, there was no significant difference between the expression of ANGPTL3 and the proangiogenic factors, including EGFR or VEGFR. Patients with high/moderate expression of ANGPTL3 had a significantly shorter survival time (6.3 months) than those (median survival time 13.8 months) with low/negative expression. The overall survival (OS) was also investigated and analyzed by the Kaplan–Meier method, which showed a significant difference (P=0.0045, Breslow test). The present data leads to new insights into the role of ANGPTL3 in glioblastomas and provides an independent predictive factor.

Keywords: ANGPTL3, glioblastoma, immunohistochemistry, prognosis, survival analysis
Published online: 06-Dec-2015
Year: 2016, Volume: 63, Issue: 1 Page From: 93, Page To: 98
doi:10.4149/neo_2016_011


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