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Molecular responses during chemotherapy in acute myeloid leukemias in predicting poor-response to standard chemotherapy.
Maha, Abdullah; Cheong, Soon-Keng; Leong, Chooi-Fun; Seow, Heng-Fong.
Afiliação
  • Maha A; Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor. maha@medic.upm.edu.my
Malays J Pathol ; 31(2): 81-91, 2009 Dec.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20514850
ABSTRACT
Signal transduction pathways are constitutively expressed in leukaemic cells resulting in aberrant survival of the cells. It is postulated that in cells of chemo-sensitive patients, chemotherapy induces apoptotic signals leading to cell death while survival signals are maintained in cells of chemo-resistant patients. There is very little information currently, on the expression of these mediators in patients immediately after chemotherapy initiation. We examined the expression pattern of proinflammatory cytokines, signaling molecules of the PI3K and MAPK pathways molecules and death receptor, DR5 on paired samples at diagnosis and during chemotherapy in acute myeloid leukaemia patients treated with cytosine arabinoside and daunorubicin. The results were correlated with remission status one month after chemotherapy. We found that in chemo-sensitive patients, chemotherapy significantly increased the percentage of cases expressing TNF-alpha (p = 0.025, n = 9) and IL-6 (p = 0.002, n = 11) compared to chemo-resistant cases. We also observed an increased percentage of chemo-sensitive cases expressing DR5 and phosphorylated p38, and Jnk. Thus, expression of TNF-alpha, IL-6, DR5, phospho-p38 and phospho-Jnk may regulate cell death in chemo-sensitive cases. In contrast, a significantly higher percentage of chemo-resistant cases expressed phospho-Bad (p = 0.027, n = 9). IL-beta and IL-18 were also found to be higher in chemo-resistant cases at diagnosis and during chemotherapy. Thus, expression of various cellular molecules in leukaemic blasts during chemotherapy may be useful in predicting treatment outcome. These cellular molecules may also be potential targets for alternative therapy.
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Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Leucemia Mieloide Aguda / Transdução de Sinais / Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica / Apoptose / Resistencia a Medicamentos Antineoplásicos / Antineoplásicos Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Child / Child, preschool / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2009 Tipo de documento: Article
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Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Leucemia Mieloide Aguda / Transdução de Sinais / Regulação Neoplásica da Expressão Gênica / Apoptose / Resistencia a Medicamentos Antineoplásicos / Antineoplásicos Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Child / Child, preschool / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2009 Tipo de documento: Article