Abstract:
:We investigated the role of plasminogen activators (PAs) and their inhibitor (plasminogen activator inhibitor-1, PAI-1) in human brain tumours. The amounts of urokinase-type plasminogen activator (u-PA), tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA), and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), and the activity of u-PA and t-PA were determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and u-PA and PAI-1 were immunolocalized using monoclonal antibodies in human brain tumours and normal brain tissues. The tissues were surgically removed from 64 patients; normal brain tissue (5 cases), low-grade glioma (4 cases), high-grade glioma (17 cases), metastatic tumour (9 cases), meningioma (benign 12 cases, malignant 6 cases), acoustic schwannoma (11 cases). u-PA activity and u-PA and PAI-1 antigen levels were significantly elevated in malignant brain tumours (malignant meningiomas, high-grade gliomas, and metastatic tumours) and acoustic schwannomas but very low in benign meningiomas, low-grade gliomas and normal brain. There was no difference in t-PA antigen levels among normal and malignant tissues, however levels of t-PA activity were markedly decreased in metastastic tumours. All malignant brain tumour tissues showed positive immunostaining for u-PA and PAI-1, however, some tumour cells showed negative intensity while others showed strong intensity for these antibodies. This contrasts to the homogeneous staining pattern found in acoustic schwannoma. These findings indicate that malignancy in human brain tumours is associated with elevated levels of u-PA and PAI-1 and that an imbalance between these proteins in a micro-environment contributes (ascribes) to tumour cell invasion.
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Acta Neurochir (Wien)journal_title
Acta neurochirurgicaauthors
Arai Y,Kubota T,Nakagawa T,Kabuto M,Sato K,Kobayashi Hdoi
10.1007/s007010050112subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-01-01 00:00:00pages
377-85; discussion 385-6issue
4eissn
0001-6268issn
0942-0940journal_volume
140pub_type
杂志文章abstract::Analysis of verbal responses to electrical stimulation of the trigeminal ganglion and rootlets has been the only method available so far to localize the electrode tip in the most appropriate trigeminal division or division segment, prior to thermocoagulation during percutaneous treatment for trigeminal neuralgia. A di...
journal_title:Acta neurochirurgica
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Acta neurochirurgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00701-005-0530-6
更新日期:2005-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Acta neurochirurgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2004-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Acta neurochirurgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1977-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Acta neurochirurgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2005-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Acta neurochirurgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00701-015-2412-x
更新日期:2015-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Acta neurochirurgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1993-01-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00701-019-03867-8
更新日期:2019-05-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1995-01-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1986-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Acta neurochirurgica
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journal_title:Acta neurochirurgica
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2001-01-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1985-01-01 00:00:00