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  • Title: [Relationship between cyclooxygenase- 2 expression and angiogenesis in patients with gastric cancer].
    Author: Sun WH, Sun YL, Fang RN, Ou XL, Xue QP, Shao Y, Xu HC, Cheng YL.
    Journal: Zhonghua Wei Chang Wai Ke Za Zhi; 2005 Jul; 8(4):343-7. PubMed ID: 16167259.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: To investigate COX-2 expression in patients with gastric cancer and its relationship with angiogenesis and clinicopathologic features of gastric cancer. METHODS: COX-2 expression and CD34-stained microvessel density (MVD) were detected by immunohistochemical methods in specimens from 96 patients with gastric cancer. The correlations among COX-2 expression, MVD and clinicopathologic features were analyzed. RESULTS: The COX-2 positive rate and MVD in gastric cancer were significantly higher than those in the normal gastric mucosa (80.2% vs. 13.3%; 32.5+/- 8.3 vs. 13.1+/- 2.4, all P< 0.01). The COX-2 positive rate and MVD in the patients with stage III and IV were significantly higher (91.4% and 34.9+/- 8.7 respectively, P< 0.01), than that in the patients with stage I and II. The COX-2 positive rate and MVD in the cases with lymph node metastasis were 87.9% and (35.0+/- 8.5) respectively, higher than those in the cases without lymph node metastasis (P< 0.05). The Spearman rank correlation test showed a significant correlation between COX-2 expression and tumor MVD (r=0.311, P< 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: COX-2 plays an important role in gastric cancer angiogenesis. COX-2 and angiogenesis induced by COX-2 contribute to tumor invasion and lymph node metastasis.
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