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Lipids ; 43(1): 79-89, 2008 Jan.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18046593

ABSTRACT

Antigen tumor markers employed in monitoring therapeutical approaches are limited by their specificity (Sp) and sensitivity (Se). The aim of this study was to investigate the suitability of a lipid tumor marker derived from ether-linked phospholipids and to compare it with others usually assayed in clinical practice. Complex lipids from normal and pathological breast, lung, and prostate tissue were isolated and analyzed by TLC and c-GLC methods. Results were compared as pooled samples, or by means of the averaged percent changes with respect to the composition observed in the normal tissue of the same patient. Sp, Se, negative-predictive (NPV) and positive- predictive values (PPV) were established for conventional markers and for the proposed lipid-derived marker. Results demonstrated that the content of monoenoic fatty acyl chains was significantly increased in total lipids, phosphatidylethanolamine, and especially in ethanolamine-containing ether lipids of neoplastic tissues with respect to their corresponding normal ones. Major changes were observed in the plasmalogen sub-fraction where the ratio monoenoic/saturated fatty acids can distinguish with high Se normal tissues from either benign or neoplastic tissues from breast, lung, or prostate lesions. Analyses of fatty acyl chains from ethanolamine-containing plasmalogens provided a reliable tumor marker that correlated with high Se and linearity with metastases spreading. This fact may be useful in prognosis of the most frequently observed human cancers.


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Biomarkers, Tumor/blood , Neoplasms/blood , Neoplasms/diagnosis , Plasmalogens/blood , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Ethanolamine/analysis , Female , Humans , Lipids/blood , Male , Middle Aged , Neoplasm Metastasis , Plasmalogens/chemistry , Predictive Value of Tests , Prognosis , Regression Analysis , Sensitivity and Specificity
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Folha méd ; 107(2): 55-61, ago. 1993. tab
Article in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-170336

ABSTRACT

Os fatores de risco para tromboses såo reconhecidos há muitos anos, mas os estudos laboratoriais até recentemente eram pouco informativos. Na última década, verificou-se que parte dos casos de tromboembolismos venosos está associada a deficiências dos sistemas de anticoagulaçåo matural e de plasminogênio. O objetivo deste trabalho é avaliar a incidência destes déficits em pacientes com tromboembolismo, no nosso meio. Cinqüenta e dois pacientes sem anticoagulaçåo oral foram investigados com testes funcionais por coagulaçåo para proteína C (PC) e antitrombina III (ATIII) e teste de imunológicos (Laurell) para proteína S (PS) e (Mancinni) para plaminogênio. Na presenca de déficits de PC, realizaram-se dosagens amidolíticas confirmatórias. Identificaram-se oito (15,4 por cento) pacientes com alteraçöes: um com déficit de ATIII, cinco de PC isolada e dois com deficiência combinada de PC e PS. Nenhum caso de deficiência de plasminogênio foi encontrado. Os testes funcionais hepáticos destes oito pacientes foram normais. Estudo familiar de triagem foi possível em três casos, comdetecçåo de novos portadores em dois. Houve atraso médio de 27 meses entre o episódio comprovado de tromboembolismo e o diagnóstico hematológico. Os pacientes deficientes parecem estar mais predispostos à recorrência tromboembólica do que os nåo-deficientes. A freqüência de alteraçöes de PC é superior à esperada, tal ocorrência podendo ser devida ao tipo de triagem (estudo monocêntrico) ou à prevalência maior desta alteraçåo no nosso meio


Subject(s)
Humans , Male , Female , Adult , Middle Aged , Blood Coagulation , Thromboembolism , Antithrombin III , Plasmalogens/blood , Protein C , Proteins
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