2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The study of mechanism and treatment of colorectal cancer with hepatic and pulmonary metastasis
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12671270
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Digestive surgery
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Women's Medical University |
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Principal Investigator |
KAMEOKA Shingo Tokyo Women's Medical University, Surgery II, Professor, 医学部, 教授 (80101848)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SHIMADA Wakako Tokyo Women's Medical University, Surgery II, Assistant, 医学部, 助手 (20277172)
SOYAMA Koichi Tokyo Women's Medical University, Surgery II, Assistant, 医学部, 助手 (30266754)
SAITO Noboru Tokyo Women's Medical University, Surgery II, Assistant, 医学部, 助手 (10225724)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2002
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| Keywords | liver metastasis / pulmonary metastasis / Adhesion molecule / Laminin / Integrin / cytokine / EGF / gene profile analysis |
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| Research Abstract |
We investigated the mechanism and treatment of colorectal cancer with hepatic and pulmonary metastasis. Mainly we approached in that concerned with adhesion molecule. In past history, Laminin, Vitronectin and E-cadherin in 1994-1996, Integrin β1 in 1996-1997, urinary GGH (glucosyl-galactosyl-hydroxylysine) in 1998, MMP-2 and MMP-9 in 1999, were studied.
This study was undertaken to investigate other molecules. Fibronectin, TGF-β, HGF/c-met and EGF. These molecules are related to cancer proliferation. The level of hepatic metastasis group was significantly higher than the no-metastasis group in serum at preoperative stage.
Immunohistochemically, these stain were almost positive in the hepatic metastasis group rather than the no-metastasis group. Recently, we tried to gene profile analysis in order to clarify the relationship between metastasis and adhesion molecule.
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Research Products
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