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  • Title: Esophageal cancer phospholipid characterization by 31P NMR.
    Author: Merchant TE, de Graaf PW, Minsky BD, Obertop H, Glonek T.
    Journal: NMR Biomed; 1993; 6(3):187-93. PubMed ID: 8347452.
    Abstract:
    Phospholipid extracts of surgical tissue specimens from 18 patients, consisting of normal esophagus, distal esophageal tumor and normal stomach, were analyzed using 31P NMR. The prominent phospholipids detected in these tissues included cardiolipin (CL), phosphatidylethanolamine plasmalogen, phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), phosphatidylserine (PS), sphingomyelin (SPH), phosphatidylinositol (PI), phosphatidylcholine plasmalogen and phosphatidylcholine (PC). Very small quantities of the phospholipids lysophosphatidylcholine, phosphatidic acid, phosphatidylglycerol, and an uncharacterized phospholipid at -0.13 delta also were detected in some of the 54 tissue specimens analyzed. The mean relative concentrations of these phospholipids, in mole percentages of total detected phosphorus, were determined from the acquired spectra and used to differentiate among the three tissue groups. The relative concentrations of the following phospholipids differed significantly (p < 0.001) among the respective tissue groups: normal esophagus vs esophageal tumor, PS, SPH, PI, PC; normal esophagus vs normal stomach, CL, PE, PS, SPH; esophageal tumor vs normal stomach, CL, PE. Membrane phospholipids implicated in modulating the growth and metastases of tumors of epithelial origin can be profiled to discriminate among normal esophagus, distal esophageal tumor and normal stomach using 31P NMR.
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