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Genome-wide cDNA microarray analysis of gene expression profiles in pancreatic cancers using populations of tumor cells and normal ductal epithelial cells selected for purity by laser microdissection

Oncogene volume 23, pages 2385–2400 (2004)Cite this article

Abstract

To characterize molecular mechanism involved in pancreatic carcinogenesis, we analysed gene-expression profiles of 18 pancreatic tumors using a cDNA microarray representing 23 040 genes. As pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas usually contain a low proportion of cancer cells in the tumor mass, we prepared 95% pure populations of pancreatic cancer cells by means of laser microbeam microdissection, and compared their expression profiles to those of similarly purified, normal pancreatic ductal cells. We identified 260 genes that were commonly upregulated and 346 genes that were downregulated in pancreatic cancer cells. Because of the high degree of purity in the cell populations, a large proportion of genes that we detected as upregulated or downregulated in pancreatic cancers were different from those reported in previous studies. Comparison of clinicopathological parameters with the expression profiles indicated that altered expression of 76 genes was associated with lymph-node metastasis and that of 168 genes with liver metastasis. In addition, expression levels of 30 genes were related to the recurrence of disease. These genome-wide expression profiles should provide useful information for finding candidate genes whose products might serve as specific tumor markers and/or as molecular targets for treatment of patients with pancreatic cancer.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Hiroko Bando, Noriko Sudo, Kie Naito, Saori Osawa, and Miwako Ando for fabrication of the cDNA microarray; Emi Ichihashi for analysis of the data; Tae Makino for preparation of samples by cryostat; Drs Minoru Takada, Katsuhiko Murakawa, Eiji Tamoto, and Manabu Shindo for preparation of surgical specimens; Drs Tatsuya Kato, Toshihiko Nishidate, and Keisuke Taniuchi for experiment of LMM and semi-quantitative RT–PCR; Dr Naoki Oyaizu for pathological advice; and Drs Hitoshi Zembutsu, Takefumi Kikuchi, Satoshi Nagayama, and Soji Kakiuchi for helpful discussions. This work was supported in part by Research for the Future Program Grant #00L01402 from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

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  1. Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8639, Japan

    Toru Nakamura, Yoichi Furukawa, Hidewaki Nakagawa, Yusuke Nakamura & Toyomasa Katagiri

  2. Division of Cancer Medicine, Surgical Oncology, Cancer Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, North 15, West 7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8638, Hokkaido, Japan

    Toru Nakamura, Masaki Miyamoto, Satoshi Hirano, Satoshi Kondo & Hiroyuki Katoh

  3. Laboratory for Medical Informatics, SNP Research Center, RIKEN (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan

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    Hiroaki Ohigashi, Kohei Murata & Osamu Ishikawa

  5. Department of Surgery, Kyoto Police Hospital, 14 Koyama Kitakamifusa-cho, Kita-ku, Kyoto, 603-8142, Japan

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  6. Department of Surgery, Teine Keijinkai Hospital, 1-12-1-40 Maeda, Teine-ku, Sapporo, 006-8555, Hokkaido, Japan

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Nakamura, T., Furukawa, Y., Nakagawa, H. et al. Genome-wide cDNA microarray analysis of gene expression profiles in pancreatic cancers using populations of tumor cells and normal ductal epithelial cells selected for purity by laser microdissection. Oncogene 23, 2385–2400 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1207392

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