Cancer stem cell and its niche in malignant progression of oral potentially malignant disorders.

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to determine association between cancer stem cells (CSCs) and their niche with progression of oral potentially malignant disorders.Patients with histologically confirmed oral potentially malignant disorders, stratified into high/low risk lesions based on the degree of dysplasia and oral cancer were included in this study. Immunohistochemical profiling of markers of CSCs (CD44), endothelial cells (CD31) and CSC-vascular niche cross-talk (CXCR4 and SDF1) were carried out. Statistical analysis was performed to correlate the relationship of markers with histopathology grade (ANOVA, and ?2 test, unpaired t test) using GraphPad InStat v3.06.The study included 550 samples (349 patients) and analysis showed progressive increase in expression levels of CSC and its niche markers with increase in grade of dysplasia as compared to the normal cohort (p?

SUBMITTER: Surendran S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5880641 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature