Bongiovanni, Laura; Brachelente, Chiara; Moreno, Eva; Welle, Monika M. (2020). Canine Epithelial Skin Tumours: Expression of the Stem Cell Markers Lgr5, Lgr6 and Sox9 in Light of New Cancer Stem Cell Theories. Veterinary sciences, 7(2) MDPI 10.3390/vetsci7020062
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Evidence is accumulating that tumour development is driven by cancer stem cells (CSCs). In order to understand the presence and potential contribution of stem cells (SCs) as tumour-initiating cells in canine cutaneous tumours, we selected three putative SC markers (Lgr5, Lgr6 and Sox9) and investigated their expression pattern, level of protein and mRNA expression, in 43 canine hair follicle (HF) and 18 canine cutaneous epidermal tumours by immunohistochemistry and qRT-PCR, using normal skin samples as controls. Lgr5 protein expression was not detected in epidermal and HF tumours; however, Lgr5 mRNA overexpression was evident in some HF tumours. Sox9 was expressed in several tumour cases, both at the protein and mRNA level. The Lgr6 antibody tested was not suitable for formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue samples, but Lgr6 gene showed higher expression in several samples of both HF and epidermal tumours compared with normal skin. Significantly higher mRNA expression levels of the three SC markers were found in trichoblastomas (TB) compared with basal cell carcinomas (BCC). The present results indicated that canine HF and epidermal tumours might have common tumour-initiating cells. The mRNA expression of the three selected SC markers, especially Lgr5, could be potentially useful in the distinction between canine TB and BCC.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
05 Veterinary Medicine > Research Foci > DermFocus 05 Veterinary Medicine > Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology (DIP) > Institute of Animal Pathology 05 Veterinary Medicine > Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology (DIP) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Welle, Monika Maria |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology 600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health 600 Technology > 630 Agriculture |
ISSN: |
2306-7381 |
Publisher: |
MDPI |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pamela Schumacher |
Date Deposited: |
08 Apr 2021 11:06 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:49 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.3390/vetsci7020062 |
PubMed ID: |
32397255 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
cancer dog hair follicle immunohistochemistry qRT-PCR skin stem cell marker tumour-initiating cell |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/153511 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/153511 |
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