Expression of mucin 5B in primary hepatolithiasis patients with hepatectomy and its clinical significance / 中华肝胆外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To explore the expression and clinical significance of mucin 5B in patients with primary intrahepatic bile duct stones (PHL) after hepatectomy.Methods:Collected the bile duct mucosa of 48 patients with intrahepatic bile duct stones (PHL group) and 16 patients with non-calculous benign liver disease (control group) who underwent hepatectomy in the Third Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University from January 2014 to January 2019, Bile duct wall, bile and venous blood. The preoperative bile and serum indexes of the two groups were compared. Immunohistochemical staining was used to examine the expression of mucin 1 and mucin 5B in the bile duct wall, and the bile duct wall was examined pathologically by HE routine staining. With mucin 1 as a positive control and β-actin as an internal reference gene, real-time PCR was used to examine the mRNA expression levels of mucin 1 and mucin 5B in the bile duct mucosa. Pearson correlation analysis was used to analyze the correlation of variables within the PHL group.Results:The preoperative serum lipid indexes in the PHL group were higher than those in the control group, while the total bile acid concentration [(181.5±18.2) mmol/L vs. (192.1±22.5) mmol/L] and the molar percentage of bile acid [(80.7±1.6)% vs. (89.7±1.0)%] is lower than the control group, the difference is statistically significant ( P<0.05). The expression of mucin 1 mRNA in the PHL group was higher than that in the control group, but the difference was not statistically significant ( P>0.05). The expression of mucin 5B mRNA in the PHL group was significantly higher than that in the control group [(0.94±0.12) vs. (0.73±0.24)], the difference was statistically significant ( P<0.05); The increased expression of bile duct mucin 5B mRNA was negatively correlated with the level of total bile acids in bile ( r=-0.4, P<0.05). Conclusions:The increased expression of mucin 5B is closely related to PHL, which may be related to the promotion of bile acid absorption by the bile duct mucosal epithelium, which causes mucin to secrete into the bile in large quantities, leading to the formation of stone-causing bile.