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A series of experiments were conducted to study synthesis and secretion of mucin in mucus-secreting subpopulations of HT29 human colonic adenocarcinoma cells selected by resistance to methotrexate (MTX). Mucin was quantitated by [3H]glucosamine labeling and chromatography on Sepharose CL-4B. The mucinous nature of the labeled high molecular weight glycoprotein was verified by alkaline borohydride treatment, cesium chloride density gradient ultracentrifugation, and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The results of these experiments demonstrated that MTX-treated cells have increased amounts of mucin in medium, cytosol, and membrane fractions. This was associated with the increase in the activities of polypeptidyl-N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase and beta-1,3-galactosyltransferase compared to control cells. DEAE-Sephacel chromatography of [3H]glucosamine-labeled high molecular weight glycoproteins suggest that MTX-treated cells are less acidic compared to controls. Using complementary DNA probes for two distinct human intestinal mucins (MUC2 and MUC3) and one mammary mucin (MUC1), it was found that MTX-treated cells expressed more mucin messages compared to untreated cells. These results were consistent with immunoblots using anti-MRP (MUC2 repeat peptide), anti-M3P (MUC3 repeat peptide), 139H2 (MUC1 peptide), anti-T (peanut lectin), anti-Tn (91S8), and anti-sialosyl Tn (JT10e) antibodies. These data indicate that MTX-resistant HT29 cells show enhanced secretion and synthesis of mucin as well as expression of MUC1-, MUC2-, and MUC3-related mucin polypeptide epitopes.
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PMID:Expression and characterization of mucins associated with the resistance to methotrexate of human colonic adenocarcinoma cell line HT29. 151 31

Statistical correlations and predictive values were calculated for 330 gastrointestinal biopsies and tissues, of which 248 were from the stomach from 115 patients in this retrospective study, which graded 10 inflammatory and 14 morphological mucosal and submucosal abnormalities and compared them with the presence of Helicobacter pylori. Analysis revealed that 78 (31.5%) of the 248 stomach biopsies and tissues showed H. pylori, and 21 (8.5%) had non-Helicobacter-like bacteria, such as rods and cocci. Inflammatory components had high correlations, with specimens containing polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) showing high specificities and predictive values for a positive test, whereas the chronic inflammatory components had high sensitivities and predictive values for a negative test. Positive morphological correlations existed for mucus depletion, degeneration, regeneration, and ulceration, but intestinal metaplasia and adenocarcinoma had negative correlations. The antrum was most commonly infected, suggesting that intact healthy antral morphology and the neutral mucin in the surface epithelial cells represents the optimal environment for infection. Also, 8.5% of the gastric biopsies and tissues showed non-Helicobacter bacteria associated with inflammation, thus raising the question of colonization versus pathogenesis.
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PMID:Prediction of Helicobacter pylori in gastric specimens by inflammatory and morphological histological evaluation. 151 69

A 51 year old man with biopsy proven pulmonary sarcoidosis and skin test positive for tuberculosis presented with features of an amelanotic flat choroidal mass suggestive of choroiditis. The mass enlarged despite corticosteroids and anti-tuberculous medications. A thorough systemic evaluation for possible primary tumor metastatic to the choroid was negative. Further clinical evaluation and magnetic resonance imaging suggested a diffuse primary choroidal malignant melanoma with optic nerve invasion. The eye was enucleated and the mass proved histopathologically to be a mucin secreting adenocarcinoma of unknown origin despite a repeat systemic work-up. The patient died three months after the onset of symptoms and three weeks after enucleation with diffuse metastases from an unknown primary cancer. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is usually helpful in the differentiation of uveal melanoma from uveal metastasis. In this case, however, it suggested the diagnosis of a diffuse choroidal melanoma. The reason for the atypical MRI findings will be discussed.
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PMID:Unusual MRI findings in metastatic carcinoma to the choroid and optic nerve: a case report. 153 48

A cDNA specific for a human intestinal mucin (MLP) was amplified by PCR from cDNA of cultured human colonic adenocarcinoma cells, LS174T. The human cDNA shared high sequence homology with a corresponding rat intestinal mucin (MLP) cDNA in the 3' terminal region, and hybridized to the same mRNA (approximately 9.0 Kb) that was recognized by a probe for the MUC-2 human intestinal mucin gene. The gene encoding our human mucin peptide also mapped to chromosome 11 p 15.5, the known locus of MUC-2. Our findings suggest that human MLP and MUC-2 are encoded by the same gene and that rat and human intestinal mucin share a common C-terminal amino acid structure.
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PMID:Human intestinal mucin-like protein (MLP) is homologous with rat MLP in the C-terminal region, and is encoded by a gene on chromosome 11 p 15.5. 155 May 88

A 44-year-old woman with a long history of smoking presented with a single lung mass detected on routine chest radiographs. There were no other known primary tumors. Light microscopy showed a mucin-producing adenocarcinoma of bronchioloalveolar type. Furthermore, no gastrointestinal primary has been discovered 18 months after discovery of the lung tumor. Electron microscopy revealed that tumor cells had microvilli containing abundant microfilamentous, dense-core rootlets that showed long extensions into apical cytoplasm. The microvilli were capped by numerous glycocalyceal bodies. These findings are similar to the ultrastructural features previously described as being specific for gastrointestinal adenocarcinomas metastatic to lung. The current case, however, suggests that the findings of glycocalyceal bodies and microvillous dense-core rootlets are not helpful in distinguishing between primary and metastatic lung adenocarcinomas.
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PMID:Pulmonary adenocarcinoma with intestinal-type differentiation. 155 32

Mucin-producing pancreatic cancers (MPPC), which include mucinous adenocarcinoma, papillary adenocarcinoma and cystadenocarcinoma, are radiographically characterized by diffuse or localized dilatation of the main pancreatic duct due to excessive mucin production. Therefore, MPPC are occasionally difficult to distinguish from chronic pancreatitis on CT unless the primary pancreatic lesion is visualized. We compared five cases of MPPC with five cases of chronic pancreatitis with marked duct dilatation to determine differences in CT images between the two diseases. There was no significant difference between the two diseases in the nature of duct dilatation (size, extent, contour) or parenchymal changes (atrophy, enlargement, calcification, cystic lesion). However, dilatation of the intramural duct was characteristically observed in MPPC but not in chronic pancreatitis. Papillary masses in the pancreatic duct, when observed, were another finding specific to MPPC.
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PMID:[CT findings of mucin-producing pancreatic cancer--differentiation from chronic pancreatitis]. 156 Oct 55

Abdominal lymph nodes from men aged 48 and 62 years with gastric adenocarcinoma were examined histologically. A few of the lymph nodes contained epidermal epithelium, although there was no metastasis. Scattered squamous epithelial nests and epidermal cysts were found within the lymph nodes, and small amounts of pancreatic tissue were present adjacent to the epidermal inclusions. Some squamous cell nests showed cyst formation, and some others showed squamous cell nests together with mucin-containing cells forming luminal structures. Immunohistochemically, the squamous cell nests stained weakly for CA19-9 but were negative for CEA or CA125. These lesions were considered to be similar to lymphoepithelial cysts of the pancreas.
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PMID:Epidermal inclusions in abdominal lymph nodes. Report of two cases studied immunohistochemically. 156 83

A 67-year-old white male presented with symptomatic hypercalcemia (15.6 mg/dl) in December 1989. He had undergone thyroidectomy for removal of a mucin-producing adenocarcinoma of the thyroid in 1967, and after eight years of follow-up during which time no other neoplasms were detected, he was reported as a unique case of this syndrome. Mild hypercalcemia (less than 11.0 mg/dl) was first noted in 1987, and this had remained stable until shortly before the acute presentation. Multiple lung nodules were observed radiographically and presumed to be granulomatous until increased size was observed shortly before presentation. Serum intact PTH was 190 pg/ml (n 10-55), but at neck exploration no parathyroid tissue was found and surgery did not resolve the hypercalcemia. Serum PTHrP was undetectable. Biopsies from all three lobes of the right lung revealed numerous nodules of metastatic adenocarcinoma with cords of tumor cells surrounded by mucin. The histology was similar to that obtained 23 years earlier. Following left upper lobe resection with removal of a 3-cm nodule, hypercalcemia resolved. The tumor stained strongly positive with a peroxidase stain for PTH using a polyclonal antibody. Northern blot hybridization of total RNA from the tumor confirmed the presence of message for PTH but not PTHrP. The original diagnosis has been revised to that of a unique case of mucin-producing parathyroid cancer with an extraordinarily long latency period before recurrence.
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PMID:Mucin-producing parathyroid carcinoma. 158 Nov 11

Six adenocarcinomas of the fallopian tube that resembled the female adnexal tumor of probable wolffian origin are described. The tumors, which occurred in patients from 38 to 66 (average 55) years of age, typically formed intraluminal masses. One was an incidental finding on microscopic examination. On microscopic examination, the tumors were characterized by a predominant pattern of small, closely packed cells punctured by numerous glandular spaces, which were typically small but occasionally were cystically dilated. Many of the glands contained a dense colloid-like secretion that was positive with the periodic acid-Schiff stain. Small amounts of intracellular mucin were present in all cases. In the solid areas of three cases, spindle cells that focally formed concentric whorls were present. In all cases, small numbers of tubular glands typical of endometrioid adenocarcinoma were identified. The cytologic atypia and mitotic activity of the tumors were variable, but they exceeded that usually seen in wolffian duct tumors. The evidence indicates that this neoplasm represents an unusual form of endometrioid adenocarcinoma. It is important that it is distinguished from a tumor of wolffian duct origin.
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PMID:Endometrioid carcinoma of the fallopian tube resembling an adnexal tumor of probable wolffian origin: a report of six cases. 158 46

Cytokine gene expression in tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) in frozen-tissue sections of 2 types of human solid tumor--ovarian adenocarcinoma and invasive breast cancer--was examined by in situ hybridization with 35S-labeled cDNA probes for human cytokines. The proportion of cells containing mRNA able to hybridize to the antisense c-DNA probes for interleukin 2 (IL-2), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha), interferon gamma (IFN gamma) or receptors for IL-2 (either p55 or p70) was also determined in human normal peripheral lymphoid tissues and inflammatory tissues. Few cells were positive for IL2 and TNF alpha mRNA in reactive human lymph nodes and tonsils. Inflammatory lesions, such as salpingitis or chronic active hepatitis, contained 10-20 times more cells positive for cytokine mRNA than reactive lymphoid tissue. In contrast, tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) in the stroma of ovarian carcinomas or most ductal breast tumors only rarely expressed mRNA for TNF alpha, IL2 or IFN gamma. The intensity of mononuclear cell infiltration in these tumors correlated positively with the percentage of cells which expressed mRNA for IL-2, TNF alpha and IL-2R. In those ductal breast carcinomas which contained intracellular or intraductal mucins, up to 30% of lymphoid cells in the tumor stroma were positive for IL-2, TNF alpha, IFN gamma and IL-2R. Thus, strong evidence for local activation of mononuclear cells in situ, exemplified by the expression of genes for cytokines, was obtained only in inflammatory lesions and in mucin-producing breast carcinomas. In most carcinomas studied, few TIL expressed genes for cytokines as measured by in situ hybridization. Thus, human solid tumors appear to differ in their ability to induce gene expression for cytokines in TIL.
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PMID:Expression of mRNA for cytokines in tumor-infiltrating mononuclear cells in ovarian adenocarcinoma and invasive breast cancer. 160 21


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