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Query: UMLS:C0024623 (gastric cancer)
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A cell line (HGC-27) was established by culture of the metastatic lymph node from a gastric cancer patient diagnosed histologically as undifferentiated carcinoma. HGC-27 cells were polygonal or short spindle-shaped and adhered to glass surfaces as a monolayer. The cells were probably derived from gastric cancer cells, as their origin from mesenchymal tissues can be excluded morphologically and enzyme-histochemically. Enzyme activities were generally negative or low, except for adenosine triphosphatase, lactic dehydrogenase and leucine aminopeptidase. These scanty findings might reflect the undifferentiated character of the original tumor cells. The cloning efficiency was 5.3% in liquid medium and 1.0% in soft agar. The doubling time was about 17 hr. Chromosomal analysis revealed a mode of 109 and 110 chromosomes.
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PMID:Human cell line (HGC-27) derived from the metastatic lymph node of gastric cancer. 13 73

Glycylprolyl beta-naphthylamidase activities in sera from 40 normal subjects (18-81 years) were: 22.6 +/- 0.9 (S.E.) (11.8-38.2) I.U./1 serum at 37 degrees C. The enzyme activities did not differ significantly with age between the younger group under 40-years-old and the older group over 40-years-old. Males, especially under 40-years-old, had slight but significantly higher activities than females. The levels were decreased in patients with gastric cancer. The levels were elevated in patients with hepatobiliary diseases, and had significant correlations with the results of the serum tests in hepatic diseases such as glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase, alkaline phosphatase and total bilirubin, but had no correlation with serum lactate dehydrogenase. In cellulose acetate electrophoresis, normal sera had a single peak at the beta-globulin region, but the sera in hepatitis or liver cirrhosis showed not only an increase in the normal peak at the beta-globulin region but also the appearance of the other one or two new peaks in the alpha1 and alpha2-globulin regions.
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PMID:Glycylprolyl beta-naphthylamidase activity in human serum. 114 81

A human primary gastric cancer tissue (adenocarcinoma II-III) was transplanted into nude mice (SWISS/DF. nu/nu). It has been transferred for 8 generations at 56 sites in 28 nude mice with transplantable rate of 100%. The transplanted tumor is designated as transplantable human primary gastric cancer-1 in nude mice (THPGC-1). The growth of THPGC-1 is rather rapid and the size of transplanted tumor reaches 1 cm2, 4-5 weeks after transfer. The morphology and histochemistry of the original tumor were retained well in the initial and serial transplanted tumors. THPGC-1 could secret carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA). After intravenous or intraperitoneal injection of 131I-antiCEA monoclonal antibody into the THPGC-1 bearing nude mice, the radiolabeled antibody was concentrated and localized in the tumor as shown by gamma-camera analysis. Similar pattern of lactate dehydrogenase isoenzyme was observed both in primary gastric cancer tissue and THPGC-1 tissue. Chromosomal examination revealed that THPGC-1 was human aneuploid ones. Southern blot analysis showed that the pattern of repetitive DNA bands and the structures of 28s, rDNA, c-H-ras and c-myc genes in THPGC-1 were identical to the original primary gastric cancer DNA. The results suggest that THPGC-1 be a reliable model for the research of the molecular biology of cancer cells and experimental gastric cancer diagnosis and treatment.
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PMID:[Biologic and molecular genetic properties of a transplantable human primary gastric cancer in nude mice]. 269 24

Levels of lactic dehydrogenase and beta-glucuronidase were measured in gastric wash samples obtained from 445 patients over 40 years old attending a routine diagnostic endoscopy clinic. An index was derived from the two levels and used as a test for the presence of gastric cancer. Of the 24 patients with an endoscopic diagnosis of gastric cancer, 21 (91.3%) proved positive on this test, including all four cases of early gastric cancer, which were found at repeat endoscopy. The specificity of the test for gastric cancer was 81.3%. Among those patients with false positive results who had endoscopic biopsy were four out of the five cases of severe dysplasia, and four out of the 13 cases of type 2B intestinal metaplasia. Atrophic gastritis alone or with intestinal metaplasia was found in 95.9% of the false positives who were biopsied.
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PMID:Gastric enzymes as a screening test for gastric cancer. 357 36

The authors describe strains of human cancer of the stomach, colon, cervix and corpus uteri as well as uterine chorionepitheliomas transplanted into nude mice and rats. The histological appearance of these strains is in full accordance with that of primary tumors. Electrophoresis of lactate dehydrogenase isozymes indicates that the strains mainly consist of human cells. The strains are transplanted in nude animals at various time intervals. The strains of human gastric cancer are transplanted from animal to animal in a month and those of corpus uteri in a week.
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PMID:[Strains of human gastrointestinal and uterine tumors transplantable into athymic mice and rats]. 404 Apr 5

Measurement of beta-glucuronidase and lactic dehydrogenase in the fasting gastric juice of dyspeptic patients is a useful test for gastric cancer, but about 10% of patients tested have positive results without a demonstrable carcinoma. We have compared the histological features of multiple endoscopic gastric biopsies from 17 such patients with apparently false positive enzyme tests with gastric biopsies from 17 age and sex matched patients with negative enzyme tests. Epithelial dysplasia, a precancerous lesion, was found in 3 patients with positive enzyme tests but was not found in those with negative enzyme tests. Sulphomucin-containing intestinal metaplasia, another lesion which is associated with carcinoma of the stomach, was found in 8 patients with a positive enzyme test (including all 3 with dysplasia) but in only one patient with a negative enzyme test. These findings suggest that patients with positive gastric juice enzyme tests who do not have an established carcinoma form a group who are at increased risk of developing gastric cancer in the future and who may be worthy of long-term follow-up.
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PMID:Elevated gastric juice enzymes--a marker for increased gastric cancer risk? 650 14

A rare isozyme of serum creatine kinase (CK) migrating cathodic to CK-MM on electrophoresis was found in a 30-year-old male with stomach cancer complicated by disseminated intravascular coagulation leading to massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding and marked anemia. Serum CK activity rose to a maximum of 374 U/l without detectable CK-MB isoenzyme. The patient was also characterized by a marked increase in serum lactate dehydrogenase (all isozymes elevated) and by preferential leakage of mitochondrial aspartate aminotransferase and glutamate dehydrogenase, indicating the presence of extensive tissue damage involving mitochondria. Skeletal muscle mitochondria were considered the most likely source of the additional CK isozyme.
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PMID:Cathodic isozyme of serum creatine kinase in a case of stomach cancer complicated by disseminated intravascular coagulation. 744 49

The human genome project has revolutionized technology for the study of DNA. Several of this year's papers have applied these techniques to the study of testicular cancer, especially the use of double-fluorescence in situ hybridization to identify the germ cell tumor marker isochrome 12p in tissue sections, and loss-of-heterozygosity studies to demonstrate a candidate suppressor gene on the long arm of the same chromosome that may be a ligand for the c-kit protooncogene. The report of a solitary case of a patient with a tumor (in a solitary testis) who was treated by partial orchiectomy and then fathered two children emphasizes the need for more information on fertility of patients with carcinoma in situ before the highly effective low-dose radiation to the testis can be accepted. The confirmation of the occurrence of acute myeloid leukemia as a late effect of etoposide and stomach cancer as a late effect of radiotherapy for stage I seminoma has drawn attention to the need to reduce treatment in good-risk patients. Results of trials substituting cisplatin with carboplatin and a trial eliminating bleomycin are particularly disappointing, and the 10% lower cures with the experimental regimen in these studies is an object lesson of the risks involved in such studies. Two other issues that continue to be debated include the increasing recognition of the value of lactate dehydrogenase-1 for identifying poor-risk patients, and the benefits of referral to a unit specializing in testicular cancer. There is an increasing trend to use high-dose chemotherapy for previously untreated patients who have poor risk factors. who have poor risk factors.
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PMID:Testicular cancer. 808 Aug 58

The activities of 6 dehydrogenases, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH), isocitrate dehydrogenase (ICDH), glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GDH), succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) and glutamate dehydrogenase (GLDH), determined by means of flow cytometry in 13 primary human gastrointestinal tumour cell lines, including 10 esophageal carcinomas, one gastric cancer, and 2 pancreatic cancers. Two-parametric measurements of specific dehydrogenase activities in single cells were performed with DAPI as fluorochrome for the nuclear DNA and with the fluorescent redox system of 5-cyano-2,3-ditolyl-tetrazolium chloride (CTC) which forms brilliant red formazan crystals upon reduction by cellular redox enzymes. Furthermore, with the aid of the calibration procedure reported previously [18] the enzyme activities were expressed as biochemical units. This application of tetrazolium salt technique for demonstrating dehydrogenase activities in human tumour cells by flow cytometry offers an alternative tool to characterize malignant tumors.
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PMID:Flow-cytometric determination of dehydrogenase activities in primary human gastrointestinal tumor cell lines. 816

An aberrant left hepatic artery, arising from the left gastric artery (LHLG), either as an accessory or replacing the left hepatic artery, is occasionally seen in patients with gastric cancer. Resection of LHLG, as part of the gastrectomy procedure, may cause liver dysfunction. The surgical records of a group of 141 patients who had undergone gastrectomy for gastric cancer following preoperative angiography were reviewed. Twenty-eight of the patients had an LHLG preoperatively; in 15 the artery was severed during surgery and in the remainder it was preserved. Postoperative liver function was assessed by measuring changes in lactate dehydrogenase, glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase, and glutamic pyruvic transaminase activities. The greatest changes in liver function were observed in patients in whom the LHLG has been severed; the changes in liver function among patients whose LHLGs were preserved were similar to those in patients who had no LHLG. Notably, the wider the area fed by the LHLG, the greater was the change in liver function. The observed liver dysfunctions were transient, however, and normal function resumed within 7 days after operation.
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PMID:Aberrant left hepatic artery arising from the left gastric artery and liver function after radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer. 844 43


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