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: Received: 5 April 2018 / Approved: 11 April 2018 / Online: 11 April 2018 (13:49:57 CEST)
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Al-Thawadi, H.; Ghabreau, L.; Aboulkassim, T.; Yasmeen, A.; Vranic, S.; Batist, G.; Al Moustafa, A. Co-Incidence of Epstein–Barr Virus and High-Risk Human Papillomaviruses in Cervical Cancer of Syrian Women. Preprints2018, 2018040151. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201804.0151.v1
Al-Thawadi, H.; Ghabreau, L.; Aboulkassim, T.; Yasmeen, A.; Vranic, S.; Batist, G.; Al Moustafa, A. Co-Incidence of Epstein–Barr Virus and High-Risk Human Papillomaviruses in Cervical Cancer of Syrian Women. Preprints 2018, 2018040151. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201804.0151.v1
Al-Thawadi, H.; Ghabreau, L.; Aboulkassim, T.; Yasmeen, A.; Vranic, S.; Batist, G.; Al Moustafa, A. Co-Incidence of Epstein–Barr Virus and High-Risk Human Papillomaviruses in Cervical Cancer of Syrian Women. Preprints2018, 2018040151. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201804.0151.v1
APA Style
Al-Thawadi, H., Ghabreau, L., Aboulkassim, T., Yasmeen, A., Vranic, S., Batist, G., & Al Moustafa, A. (2018). Co-Incidence of Epstein–Barr Virus and High-Risk Human Papillomaviruses in Cervical Cancer of Syrian Women. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201804.0151.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Al-Thawadi, H., Gerald Batist and Ala-Eddin Al Moustafa. 2018 "Co-Incidence of Epstein–Barr Virus and High-Risk Human Papillomaviruses in Cervical Cancer of Syrian Women" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201804.0151.v1
Abstract
Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) has been recently shown to be co-present with high-risk human papillomaviruses (HPVs) in human cervical cancer; thus, these oncoviruses play an important role in the initiation and/or progression of this cancer. Accordingly, our group has recently viewed the presence and genotyping distribution of high-risk HPVs in cervical cancer in Syrian women; our data pointed out that HPVs are present in 95.45% of our samples. Herein, we aim to explore the co-prevalence of EBV and high-risk HPVs in 44 cervical cancer tissues from Syrian women using polymerase chain reaction (PCR), immunohistochemistry (IHC) and tissue microarray (TMA) analyses. We found that EBV and high-risk HPVs are co-present in 15/44 (34%) of the samples. Additionally, we report that the co-expression of LMP1 and E6 genes of EBV and high-risk HPVs, respectively, is associated with poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinomas phenotype; this is accompanied by a strong and diffused Id-1 overexpression, which is an important regulator of cell invasion and metastasis. These data imply that EBV and HPVs are co-present in cervical cancer in the Middle East area including Syria and their co-presence is associated with a more aggressive cancer phenotype. Future investigations are needed to elucidate the exact role of EBV and HPVs cooperation in cervical carcinogenesis.
Keywords
Cervical cancer – viruses – Human Papillomaviruses – Epstein-Barr virus – Id-1
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Pathology and Pathobiology
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