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ArticleBioscience reports2020

High expression of sperm-associated antigen 5 correlates with poor survival in ovarian cancer.

Mei Zhang, Ling Sha, Ning Hou, Chuanbing Shi, Lin Tan

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Article in Bioscience reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Mei ZhangDepartment of Pathology, Pukou District Central Hospital, Pukou Branch of Jiangsu Province Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 166 Shanghe street, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Ling ShaDepartment of Neurology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, 321 ZhongShan Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Ning HouDepartment of Pathology, Jiangsu Cancer Hospital, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 42 Baiziting, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Chuanbing ShiDepartment of Pathology, Pukou District Central Hospital, Pukou Branch of Jiangsu Province Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 166 Shanghe street, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Lin TanDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Pukou District Central Hospital, Pukou Branch of Jiangsu Province Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 166 Shanghe street, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Jiangsu Province Hospital · CNJiangsu Cancer Hospital · CNNanjing Drum Tower Hospital · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesSperm-associated antigen 5 (SPAG5), a spindle-binding protein, regulates the process of mitosis. The present study focused on the relationship between SPAG5 expression and the clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis of ovarian cancer.

methodsFirst, we used the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database to analyze SPAG5 expression in ovarian cancer and its clinical relevance. Subsequently, qPCR test was used to detect SPAG5 mRNA expression in 20 cases of ovarian cancer. The expression of SPAG5 protein in a tissue microarray containing 102 cases of ovarian cancer was detected by immunohistochemistry. Cox regression and Kaplan-Meier survival analyses were performed to identify the prognostic factors for the 102 ovarian cancer patients.

resultsIn the GEO datasets, SPAG5 mRNA expression was significantly higher in ovarian cancer tissues than that in normal ovarian tissues (P < 0.001). qPCR and immunohistochemistry showed that SPAG5 expression in ovarian cancer tissues was significantly higher than that in paracancerous tissues (P = 0.002, P < 0.001). The high expression of SPAG5 in ovarian cancer was correlated with histological type (P = 0.009), lymph node metastasis (P = 0.001), distant metastasis (P = 0.001), TNM stage (P = 0.001), and prognosis (P = 0.001). The Kaplan-Meier curve indicated that rates of disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) were even lower in patients with high SPAG5 expression. Multivariate analysis showed that SPAG5 expression (P = 0.001) and TNM staging (P = 0.002) were independent prognostic factors for the DFS of ovarian cancer.

conclusionsThese results suggest that high SPAG5 expression was correlated with multiple clinicopathological features of ovarian cancer and can be used as an evaluation indicator for a poor ovarian cancer prognosis.

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Biomarkers, TumorCell Cycle ProteinsDatabases, GeneticDisease-Free SurvivalFemaleGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansMiddle AgedNeoplasm StagingOvarian NeoplasmsPredictive Value of TestsRisk FactorsTime FactorsUp-RegulationBiomarkers, TumorCell Cycle ProteinsSPAG5 protein, humanimmunohistochemistryprognosisSPAG5

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PMID31985007
PMCPMC7007403
OpenAlexW3003998647

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