Avaliação da expressão proteica de PTEN, MDM2, P53 e AR em lesões proliferativas da próstata canina

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Rivera Calderón, Luis Gabriel [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Cão; Próstata; Carcinogenese; Imuno-histoquímica; Expressão gênica; Prostate
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/122031

The canine prostate may spontaneously develop prostatic proliferative lesions, associated with aging, inflammation and hormones, such as: benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), proliferative inflammatory atrophy (PIA) and prostatic carcinoma (PCa). Consequently, the dog can be used for the study of carcinogenesis process in the prostate of men. Changes in PTEN and TP53 gene and protein expression and function were detected in preneoplasic and neoplasic lesion of human prostate. MDM2 oncoprotein overexpression and loss of nuclear staining of androgen receptor (AR) were correlated with tumor progression and inefficiency antiandrogen treatment of PCa in men. In this context, the aim of this study was to evaluate PTEN, MDM2, p53 and AR protein expression to determine their role in carcinogenic process of the canine prostate. We built a tissue microarray (TMA), with 74 samples of canine prostate, divided into 18 BPH, PIA 22, 19 PCa and 15 prostates of normal tissue. The immunohistochemistry was carried for PTEN, MDM2, p53, and AR antibodies with peroxidase method and DAB. The PTEN, p53 and AR showed loss of nuclear staining in canine prostate carcinoma compared with normal prostate tissue. MDM2 oncoprotein, in normal tissue was discrete cytoplasmic and we observed nuclear staining in CaP, while more than 85% of the samples showed cytoplasmic/nuclear overexpression. The loss of nuclear staining of PTEN, p53 and AR, and the gain of MDM2 expression was also reported in human PCa, suggesting that there are similarities in the molecular alterations of PTEN/MDM2/p53 network and AR in both species in the process prostate carcinogenesis. Therefore, the dog is a potential model for the study of molecular signaling pathways as PTEN/MDM2/p53 and AR involved in human PCa