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Clinical significance of expression levels of serum ADRA1A in hysterocarcinoma patients

  • Authors:
    • Lin Peng
    • Wei Peng
    • Peng Hu
    • Hui-Feng Zhang
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  • Published online on: April 11, 2018     https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2018.8465
  • Pages: 9162-9166
  • Copyright: © Peng et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Abstract

The clinical significance of the expression level of serum adrenergic receptor α1 (ADRA1A) in hysterocarcinoma patients was determined. Peripheral serum samples were collected at the Hubei Cancer Hospital from 455 patients affected by hysterocarcinoma and 380 healthy adults, who served as the normal control group. We determined the expression levels of ADRA1A by ELISA and analyzed its correlation to clinical features and prognosis of the patients. Compared with the normal control group, the expression of ADRA1A in the average peripheral serum level of hysterocarcinoma patients was clearly increased (P<0.05). In addition, the expression level of ADRA1A was positively correlated with the FIGO staging for hysterocarcinoma (r=0.312, P=0.014). Furthermore, the expression levels of serum ADRA1A in patients with metastasis were significantly increased compared to the levels of hysterocarcinoma patients without metastasis (P<0.05). Our analyses also showed that the expression levels of serum ADRA1A in hysterocarcinoma patients did not correlate with patient factors such as age, tumor invasive depth, tumor size or tumor differentiation degree (P>0.05). The Kaplan-Meier survival analysis indicated that the median survival time (37.1 months) of patients with a high expression of serum ADRA1A was lower than that of patients with a low expression of serum ADRA1A (68 months) (P<0.05). The three- and five-year survival rates of patients expressing low serum ADRA1A were, respectively, 74.00 and 62.00%; and the three- and five-year survival rates of patients expressing high levels of serum ADRA1A were 52.00 and 32.00%, respectively, with all the differences being statistically significant (P<0.05). ADRA1A was highly expressed in the peripheral serum in patients with hysterocarcinoma and the expression of ADRA1A was associated with FIGO staging and lymph node metastasis status. The expression of serum ADRA1A can be used to assess the survival rate and may be involved in the pathogenesis and metastasis progression of hysterocarcinoma.
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Peng L, Peng W, Hu P and Zhang H: Clinical significance of expression levels of serum ADRA1A in hysterocarcinoma patients. Oncol Lett 15: 9162-9166, 2018
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Peng, L., Peng, W., Hu, P., & Zhang, H. (2018). Clinical significance of expression levels of serum ADRA1A in hysterocarcinoma patients. Oncology Letters, 15, 9162-9166. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2018.8465
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Peng, L., Peng, W., Hu, P., Zhang, H."Clinical significance of expression levels of serum ADRA1A in hysterocarcinoma patients". Oncology Letters 15.6 (2018): 9162-9166.
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Peng, L., Peng, W., Hu, P., Zhang, H."Clinical significance of expression levels of serum ADRA1A in hysterocarcinoma patients". Oncology Letters 15, no. 6 (2018): 9162-9166. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2018.8465