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PATHOLOGY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
Volume 205, Issue 11, Pages 781-788Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG
DOI: 10.1016/j.prp.2009.07.002
Keywords
Focal adhesion kinase; Immunohistochemistry; Lymphoma; Lymphoid tissue
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- Leukaemia Research Fund [0382, 04061]
- Julian Starmer-Smith Lymphoma Fund
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Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is a protein tyrosine kinase essential for intracellular regulatory events, such as cell growth, differentiation, migration and tumor metastasis. The aim of this study was to analyze the expression of FAK protein in a series of normal and neoplastic lymphoid tissues. An anti-FAK antibody was used to study the protein expression in paraffin-embedded samples of normal and neoplastic, hematolymphoid and non-hematolymphoid tissues by immunohistochemistry. In normal hematolymphoid tissue, the strongest expression of FAK was detected in germinal center and marginal-zone B cells; positive staining was also found in mantle zone B cells. In human lymphomas, FAK was expressed mostly in B-cell lymphomas and was predominantly negative in T-cell lymphoma. In Hodgkin lymphomas, FAK was found only in the neoplastic cells of lymphocyte predominant type, whereas the tumor cells of the classical form were FAK-negative. We demonstrate for the first time the expression of FAK in paraffin-embedded hematolymphoid tissue samples. Its differential expression in lymphomas may be of relevance for some B-cell neoplasms by using it as an additional marker to distinguish B- from T-lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma to further differentiate lymphocyte predominant from classical Hodgkin lymphoma. (C) 2009 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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