Article
Human gliomas with wild-type p53 express bcl-2.
Cancer research - 1 Mar 1995
Alderson L M, Castleberg R L, Harsh G R, Louis D N, Henson J W
Abstract excerpt
Human astrocytomas frequently overexpress wild-type p53, which suggests that gliomas have evolved a mechanism to subvert p53-mediated apoptosis. bcl-2 inhibits apoptosis mediated by p53, and it is expressed in several human cancers. We therefore examined a series of human gliomas to determine whether bcl-2 is expressed and whether this expression is associated with tumors which have wild-type p53. Twenty-eight...
Topics
- Apoptosis
- Astrocytoma
- Gene Expression
- Genes, p53
- Glioma
- Immunohistochemistry
- Mutation
- Paraffin Embedding
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2
- Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
