- Yasir Raza1,2,
- Adnan Khan1,
- Amber Farooqui1,6,
- Muhammad Mubarak3,
- Alex Facista2,
- Syed Shakeel Akhtar4,
- Saeed Khan1,
- Javed Iqbal Kazi3,5,
- Carol Bernstein2 &
- …
- Shahana Urooj Kazmi1
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Helicobacter pylori infection is an established risk factor for gastritis, gastric ulcer, peptic ulcer and gastric cancer.CagA +ve H. pylori has been associated with oxidative DNA damage of gastric mucosa but their combined role in the development of gastric cancer is still unknown. Here we compare the combined expression ofcagA and 8-hydroxy-2′-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) in normal, gastritis and gastric cancer tissues. Two hundred gastric biopsies from patients with dyspeptic symptoms, 70 gastric cancer tissue samples and 30 gastric biopsies from non-dyspeptic individuals (controls) were included in this study and 8-OHdG was detected by immunohistochemistry (IHC). Histological features and the presence ofH. pylori infection were demonstrated by Hematoxylin and Eosin (HE), Giemsa and alcian blue-periodic acid-Schiff ± diastase (AB-PAS ± D) staining. DNA was extracted from tissues and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) performed to determine the presence ofureaseA andcagA genes ofH. pylori. The results showed the presence ofH. pylori in 106 (53 %) gastric biopsies out of 200 dyspeptic patients, including 70 (66 %) cases ofcagA + ve H. pylori. The presence ofcagA gene and high expression of 8-OHdG was highly correlated with severe gastric inflammation and gastric cancer particularly, in cases with infiltration of chronic inflammatory cells (36.8 %cagA + ve, 18 %), neutrophilic activity (47.2 %, 25.5 %), intestinal metaplasia (77.7 %, 35.7 %) and intestinal type gastric cancer (95 %, 95.4 %) (p ≤ 0.01). In conclusion,H. Pylori cagA gene expression and the detection of 8-OHdG adducts in gastric epithelium can serve as potential early biomarkers ofH. Pylori-associated gastric carcinogenesis.
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We are also highly thankful to Mr. Nazim, Department of Histopathology, Zaiuddun University and Hospital, for his assistance in collecting samples. We are also highly grateful to Mrs. Nikki Kelvin for the technical revision of manuscript and Dr Saleem Iqbal for helping in statistical analysis.
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Yasir Raza, Alex Facista & Carol Bernstein
Department of Histopathology, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, Pakistan
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Department of Surgery and Medicine, Civil Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
Syed Shakeel Akhtar
Department of Histopathology, Ziauddin University and Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
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Division of Immunology, International Institute of Infection and Immunity, Shantou University Medical College, 22 Xinling Road, Shantou, Guangdong, 515041, China
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Raza, Y., Khan, A., Farooqui, A.et al. Oxidative DNA Damage as a Potential Early Biomarker ofHelicobacter pylori Associated Carcinogenesis.Pathol. Oncol. Res.20, 839–846 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12253-014-9762-1
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