Comparison of rectal mucosal proliferation measured by proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) immunohistochemistry and whole crypt dissection.
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev
; 4(7): 715-20, 1995.
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| ID: mdl-8672987
ABSTRACT
Rectal mucosal proliferation has been promoted as an intermediate marker for risk of colorectal neoplasia. Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) immunohistochemistry has become a standard method to measure cell proliferation. Whole-crypt dissection may provide a technically simpler method for determining proliferation within an entire crypt. We conducted a study to assess the reliability (reproducibility) of whole-crypt dissection in 10 subjects. Reliability of whole-crypt dissection with the subject as the unit of observation was excellent. The intraclass correlation coefficient for subjects was 0.93. Biopsy-to-biopsy reliability was lower (r=0.86) and crypt-to-crypt reliability lower still (r = 0.35). There was poor correlation between measures of proliferation index using the two techniques (Kendall's tau = 0.13; P = 0.08). Compartment analysis based on the percentage of the total number of labeled cells appearing in each crypt quartile also did not demonstrate a significant correlation between the two measures. We conclude that PCNA labeling index and whole-crypt mitotic count are not comparable measures of rectal mucosal proliferation.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Reto
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Neoplasias Colorretais
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Antígeno Nuclear de Célula em Proliferação
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Mucosa Intestinal
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
1995
Tipo de documento:
Article