Expression of CD44, CD44v9, ABCG2, CD24, Bmi‑1 and ALDH1 in stage I and II oral squamous cell carcinoma and their association with clinicopathological factors

  • Authors:
    • Tetsuya Tamatani
    • Natsumi Takamaru
    • Go Ohe
    • Kazuya Akita
    • Takayuki Nakagawa
    • Youji Miyamoto
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  • Published online on: May 11, 2018     https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2018.8703
  • Pages: 1133-1140
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Abstract

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) exhibit self‑replication, self‑differentiation, drug resistance and immune evasion activities. In recent years CSCs have become increasingly important for the treatment of malignant tumors. CSCs express specific markers, including cluster of differentiation (CD)44, CD44 variant 9 (CD44v9), ATP‑binding cassette sub‑family G member 2 (ABCG2), CD24, B lymphoma Mo‑MLV insertion region 1 homolog (BMI‑1) and aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 (ALDH1). However, the prognostic value of their expression in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) are not well known. The present study evaluated these markers in stage I and II patients with OSCC and examined the association between T classification, histological differentiation, classification of invasion mode, lymph node metastasis and disease‑free survival rate. Tissue specimens were obtained from 70 patients with stage I or II OSCC following either surgery or biopsy. Immunohistochemistry was performed and positive staining was defiend as 10% positive cells. CD44 and CD44v9 expressions were strongly detected in all OSCC tissues compared with normal epithelial cells. A total of 22 (31.4%) cases expressed ABCG2 and there was a significant association between ABCG2 expression and invasion. A total of 41 cases (59.0%) expressed CD24 and there was a significant association between CD24 expression and invasion. A total of 33 cases (47.1%) expressed BMI‑1 and there was a significant association between BMI‑1 expression and the disease‑free survival rate. A total of 18 cases (25.7%) expressed ALDH1. Although there was no association between ALDH1 expression and T classification, there were significant associations between ALDH1 expression and histological differentiation, invasion mode, metastasis and the disease‑free survival rate. Multivariate analysis revealed that ALDH1 expression was the only prognostic factor for disease‑free survival rate. The results of the present study suggest that the positivity of ALDH1 detected in patients with OSCC correlates with the number of cells undergoing epithelial mesenchymal transition and metastasis. These findings indicated that the expression of ALDH1 may be an effective prognostic marker indicating the survival of patients with stage I and II OSCC.

Introduction

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are functionally defined by their extensive self-renewal capacity. CSC confers increased radio- and chemoresistance in tumors, resulting in tumor recurrence and metastatic spread. Therefore, identification of the regulators that control the tumorigenic potential of CSCs might provide new therapeutic strategies against CSCs to improve cancer treatment. The CSC theory suggests that only a few cancer cells with a capacity for high tumorigenicity, self-renewal, and differentiation are responsible for the maintenance and growth of tumors. Similar to normal tissue stem cells, CSCs can also exist within a supportive niche (1).

Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) patients in stage I and II are mainly treated by surgery and almost all patients show good prognosis, with a 5-year disease free survival rate of early stage OSCC patients over 90%. However, approximately 10% of these early stage OSCC patients showed poor prognosis (2) and some cases have shown cervical lymph node metastasis and distant metastasis, with poor outcome. Currently, there are no prognostic markers for these stage I and II OSCC patients who show poor prognosis.

Cluster of differentiation (CD)44 is a cell surface transmembrane glycoprotein encoded by the CD44 gene, which consists of 20 exons. The standard isoform of CD44 is encoded by exons 1–5 and exons 16–20, and other CD44 variant (CD44v) protein isoforms are generated by alternative splicing with variable exons (3). CD44 functions in various biological processes, such as cell adhesion, cell migration, and cancer metastasis. More recently, CD44 has been recognized as a CSC marker in several types of cancers (3). However, as CD44 is ubiquitously expressed in many cell types, its usefulness as a CSC marker may be limited. Furthermore, conflicting data in the field implicate the importance of CD44 in both tumor suppression and progression, and these discrepancies have been largely attributed to the expression of alternatively spliced variants. Among the variants, CD44 variant 9 (CD44v9) may contribute to cancer survival in harsh environments, such as high reactive oxygen species-generated conditions from chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy (4–6).

ATP-binding cassette sub-family G member 2 (ABCG2) is a member of the ATP-binding cassette transporter protein superfamily that produces multiple drug-resistant cancers (7) and is a molecular determinant for maintaining the side population phenotype in stem cells. This phenotype has been isolated from several primary tumors and cancer cell lines, including those of the lung, esophagus, nasopharynx, and oral cavity (8–10). Furthermore, ABCG2 expression has been found in solid tumors of hepatocellular, lung, pancreas, and head and neck squamous carcinomas (HNSCC) (8–10). ABCG2 plays a critical role in the maintenance of the stem cell phenotype and multidrug resistance of cancer cells (7). ABCG2 also regulates the pattern of cell division in non-small cell lung cancer cell lines (9). A recent study suggested that the ABCG2-positive side population cells with the ability to exclude Hoechst 33342 and the possession of cancer stem-like properties may play an important role in oral carcinogenesis (9). Increasing evidence suggests ABCG2 is a marker in CSC and plays a central role in tumorigenesis (8–10).

CD24 is a mucin-like cell surface protein that is expressed in cells of the hematopoietic system, in neuronal tissues, and in certain epithelial cells such as keratinocytes (11,12). Several studies have investigated CD24 expression in various malignant tissues; B cell lymphoma, lung, pancreatic, colorectal, breast, and prostate cancer (13–15). Although its physiologic functions are not fully elucidated, it seems to be involved in the regulation of tumor proliferation and adhesion. In cancer cells, the function of CD24 as a ligand for P-selection may be important for the metastatic potential of the tumors by facilitating interactions with endothelial cells. Previous studies showed that elevation of CD24 expression in various malignant tumors is associated with prognosis (12–15).

B-cell specific Moloney leukemia virus insert site 1 (BMI-1) is an essential constituent of polycomb repressive complex 1, a key epigenetic regulator. BMI-1 controls the cell cycle and the self-renewal of tissue stem cells by regulating chromatin and histone structure, and has been implicated in maintaining the self-renewal of neural, hematopoietic, and intestinal stem cells. Elevated Bmi-1 expression was demonstrated to be associated with dysplastic cell transformation during oral carcinogenesis and to be required for cancer cell replication and survival (16–18).

Aldehyde dehydrogenase 1 (ALDH1) contributes to the oxidation of retinol acid in early stem cell differentiation and also correlates with the number of cells undergoing epithelial-mesenchymal transition, a process that is considered a key for the formation of metastasis (19,20). Several studies proposed ALDH1 as a putative marker for the identification and isolation of CSCs in many kinds of cancers including HNSCC (19,21,22). Little is known regarding the biology or behavior of CD44, CD44V9, ABCG2, CD24, BMI-1, ALDH1 of stage I and II OSCC. We would choose those CSC marker among many reports considered important for survival rates including esophageal, lung, gastric, colorectal, and head and neck cancer (1–19,21,22). And the significance of expression of those markers in stage I and II OSCC remains to be determined. In this study, we evaluated the association between expression of CSC markers and clinicopathological features of stage I and II OSCC patients and determined the potential correlation between CSC marker expression with clinical factors and prognosis. The aim of the present study was to clarify the prognostic factors for stage I and II OSCC patients focused on the expression of CSC markers. Because we need to find the prognostic factor in order to improve the poor outcome of approximately 10% of early stage OCC patients.

Materials and methods

Patients

Oral cancer tissues were obtained from 70 OSCC patients from Tokushima University Hospital at biopsy or surgery. Sixty eight cases were used biopsy samples except surgery samples of two cases. All patients were treated by surgery. Tumor size and clinicopathological stage of OSCC were classified according to the TNM staging system (2011). This study was approved by the Tokushima University Human Investigations Committee Febuary 2016. The Yamamoto-Kohama (YK) classification, which is a modified version of the classification of Jakobsson et al (23) and Willen et al (24), was used for pathological grade of tumor invasion (25). This classification has five grades (1, 2, 3, 4C and 4D) and focuses on the shape of tumor cell aggregation at the invasion front.

Immunohistochemistry: Samples were fixed in neutral 10% formalin and embedded in paraffin after resection. Sections (5 µm-thick) were cut and transferred on slides; sections were deparaffinized in xylene and dehydrated in graded ethanol. Endogenous peroxidase activity was blocked by 1% hydrogen peroxide, and microwave antigen retrieval was carried out in a microwave oven. Immunostaining was performed using an avidin-biotin peroxidase enzyme complex (ABC kit; Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, CA, USA). The sections were incubated with monoclonal rabbit anti-human CD44 (clone EPR1013Y: dilution 1:100; Abcam, Cambridge, UK), monoclonal rat anti-human CD44v9 (LKG-M001: dilution 1:2,000; Funakoshi, Tokyo, Japan), monoclonal mouse anti-human ABCG2 (clone BXP-21: dilution 1:100; Abcam), monoclonal mouse anti-human CD24 (clone 8.B.76: dilution 1:50; Abcam), monoclonal mouse anti-human Bmi-1 (clone 1.T.21: dilution 1:100; Abcam), and monoclonal rabbit anti-human ALDH1 (clone EP1933Y: dilution 1:100; Abcam) antibodies overnight at 4°C, and then subsequently placed in secondary anti-rabbit antibody followed by avidin-biotin complex reagent. The sections were finally incubated in the substrate 3,3′diaminobenzidine (0.05%) and 0.1% hydrogen peroxide for 8 min. The intensity of immunohistochemical staining was graded as negative and positive; expressions of CSC markers were considered positive when more than 10% of all tumor cells were stained. The grade of staining intensity in case of different biomarkers were not taken into consideration in this study.

Statistical analysis

Statistical analysis was performed by Kruskal-Wallis test, Mann-Whitney U test between expressions of CSC markers and clinicopathological factors. Survival analysis was calculated using the Kaplan-Meier Method and compared using the log-rank test. Cox hazard regression model was used for the multivariate analysis. The results were quantified using hazard ratio (HR) with 95% confidence interval (95% CI). P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.

Results

The expression of CD44, CD44v9, ABCG2, CD24, BMI-1, and ALDH1 in OSCC with stage I and II

This study examined the expression of a panel of CSC markers in oral cancer tissues from 70 OSCC patients. The clinicopathological data of all patients are summarized in Table I. CD44 and CD44v9 protein expressions were detected in all OSCC tissues and were observed in the majority of tumor cells, as shown in Fig. 1 and Table II. CD44 and CD44v9 proteins were expressed in basal cell layer of normal oral epithelium and in more than 50% of the cells in epithelial dysplasia (data not shown). CD44 and CD44V9 proteins were localized to the plasma membrane and cytoplasm in cancer cells, and tended to exhibit intense irregular and disorganized staining patterns.

Table I.

Clinicopathological characteristics of the patients.

Table I.

Clinicopathological characteristics of the patients.

CharacteristicGroupNo. of patients
SexMale34
Female36
Age (years)Median68
Range35–97
Primary siteTongue38
Oral floor5
Upper gingiva5
Lower gingiva16
Buccal mucosa6
T classificationT117
T253
Histological type Well-differentiated35
Moderately differentiated30
Poorly differentiated3
YK classificationYK15
YK224
YK330
YK4C6
YK4D3
N statusN (+)14
N (–)56

[i] N status, occult cervical lymph node metastasis.

Table II.

Expression rate of CSC marker.

Table II.

Expression rate of CSC marker.

MarkerNo. of positive expression patients/total patientsPercentage
CD4470/70100
CD44V970/70100
ABCG222/7031.4
CD2441/7059.0
BMI-133/7047.1
ALDH118/7025.7

[i] CD, cluster of differentiation; OSCC, oral squamous cell carcinoma; BMI-1, B-cell-specific Moloney murine leukemia virus insertion site 1; ALDH1, aldehyde dehydrogenase 1; CSC, cancer stem cell.

The rates of ABCG2, CD24, BMI-1, and ALDH1 positive expression in OSCC patients were 31.4, 59.0, 47.1 and 25.7%, respectively (Table II). Representative staining images of ABCG2, CD24, BMI-1, and ALDH1 proteins are presented in Fig. 2. ABCG2, CD24, BMI-1, and ALDH1 proteins were expressed in the plasma membrane and cytoplasm. ABCG2, CD24, and ALDH1 proteins were mainly localized in the invasive front. The well-differentiated cells forming keratin pearls tended to show expression of CD24 and BMI-1 proteins. ALDH1-positive cells were scattered and were notably absent in keratin pearls.

Correlation of CSC marker expressions and clinicopathologic characteristics

We next examined the correlation of CSC marker expressions with clinicopathologic features. Although ABCG2 expression was not associated with tumor size (Table III), histological differentiation, or lymph node metastasis, its expression was significantly associated with classification of invasion mode (YK classification) in OSCC. CD24 expression was not associated with tumor size, histological differentiation, or lymph node metastasis (Table IV). However, there was an association between CD24 expression and invasion mode (YK classification). BMI-1 expression was not related with tumor size, histological differentiation, invasion mode (YK classification), or lymph node metastasis (Table V). There was significant association between ALDH1 expression and histological differentiation, invasion mode or lymph node metastasis (Table VI).

Table III.

Statistical correlation of ABCG2 expression and clinicopathological features.

Table III.

Statistical correlation of ABCG2 expression and clinicopathological features.

Clinicopathological featureGroupABCG2 (+)ABCG2 (–)P-value
T classificationT16110.71
T21637
Histological type Well-differentiated1223
Moderately differentiated8220.80
Poorly differentiated12
YK classification (invasion mode)YK 114
YK 21212
YK 33270.04
YK 4C31
YK 4D21
N statusN (+)770.10
N (–)1541

[i] N status, occult cervical lymph node metastasis. ABCG2, ATP-binding cassette sub-family G member 2.

Table IV.

Statistical correlation of CD24 expression and clinicopathological features.

Table IV.

Statistical correlation of CD24 expression and clinicopathological features.

Clinicopathological featureGroupCD24 (+)CD24 (–)P-value
T classificationT11250.25
T22924
Histological type Well-differentiated2411
Moderately differentiated15150.21
Poorly differentiated12
YK classification (invasion mode)YK 150
YK 2177
YK 312180.03
YK 4C31
YK 4D12
N statusN (+)950.60
N (–)3224

[i] N status, occult cervical lymph node metastasis. CD, cluster of differentiation.

Table V.

Statistical correlation of BMI-1 expression and clinicopathological features.

Table V.

Statistical correlation of BMI-1 expression and clinicopathological features.

Clinicopathalogical featureGroupBMI-1 (+)BMI-1 (–)P-value
T classificationT16110.26
T22726
Histological type Well-differentiated1718
Moderately differentiated15150.25
Poorly differentiated03
YK classification (invasion mode)YK 132
YK 21212
YK 314160.55
YK 4C22
YK 4D03
N statusN (+)4100.12
N (–)2927

[i] N status, occult cervical lymph node metastasis. BMI-1, B-cell-specific Moloney murine leukemia virus insertion site 1.

Table VI.

Statistical correlation of ALDH1 expression and clinicopathological features.

Table VI.

Statistical correlation of ALDH1 expression and clinicopathological features.

Clinicopathalogical featureGroupALDH1 (+)ALDH1 (–)P-value
T classificationT14130.81
T21439
Histological type Well-differentiated728
Moderately differentiated8220.01
Poorly differentiated30
YK classification (invasion mode)YK 105
YK 2420
YK 39210.04
YK 4C31
YK 4D21
N statusN (+)770.02
N (–)1145

[i] N status, occult cervical lymph node metastasis. ALDH1, aldehyde dehydrogenase 1.

Survival analysis

We further determined the effects of the CSC marker expression in stage I and II OSCC patients on survival rate (Fig. 3). The data for overall survival are almost same of the data for disease free survival, because only one patients was died at other disease other than OSCC. So we could not show the data for overall survival. The expressions of ABCG2 or CD24 did not show an association with disease-free survival rate. Patients with BMI-1 expression showed better prognosis, and those who lacked BMI-1 expression showed worse prognosis. ALDH1 expression was significantly associated with worse prognosis. Multivariate analysis showed that ALDH1 expression was the only prognostic factor against disease-free survival rate (HR, 15.82, 95% CI, 1.08–231.48, P=0.04; Table VII).

Table VII.

Cox regression analysis of CSC marker expression and disease free survival.

Table VII.

Cox regression analysis of CSC marker expression and disease free survival.

FactorHR(95% CI)P-value
Age0.99(0.91–1.08)0.79
Primary site0.71(0.27–1.85)0.48
Histological type0.85(0.22–3.34)0.82
YK classification3.09(0.80–12.03)0.10
ABCG20.56(0.04–7.51)0.67
CD240.83(0.09–7.57)0.87
BMI-11.85(0.13–25.71)0.21
ALDH115.82(1.08–231.48)0.04

[i] HR, harzard ratio; CI, confidence interval; CD, cluster of differentiation; OSCC, oral squamous cell carcinoma; BMI-1, B-cell-specific Moloney murine leukemia virus insertion site 1; ALDH1, aldehyde dehydrogenase 1; CSC, cancer stem cell.

Discussion

This study clearly demonstrated that there was significant association between ALDH1 expression and histological differentiation or invasion mode; ABCG2 expression and invasion mode; and CD24 expression and invasion mode in stage I and II OSCC patients. In addition, the expression of ALDH1 and lack of BMI-1 expression were significantly associated with survival in stage I and II OSCC patients.

We determined the expression of CD44 and CD44v9 in the oral mucosa and cancer tissues in 70 stage I and II OSCC patients. CD44 and CD44v9 expressions were almost in basal layer of normal epithelium and were abundantly expressed in most tumor cells. A previous study showed that CD44 expression was detected in 0.1–41.7% HNSCC cases (26). Sato et al found that increased expression of CD44v9 was significantly associated with poorer clinical outcome in OSCC (27). These findings are not in agreement with the results of this study showing that CD44 and CD44v9 were abundantly expressed in OSCC. Many reports investigated the CD44 expression rate (50~80%) and relationship between CD44s expression and clinicopathological factors (28,29). However, the results of these studies have been conflicting. Mack and Gires showed that the possibilities for these discrepancies may be due to different antibodies used, different cut-offs or different technologies used, i.e. flow cytometry (30). Clay et al recently suggested that it was unlikely that CD44+ cells were a pure population of CSCs, and highlighted the need for its evaluation in combination with another marker (31). This study showed that CD44 could not be an important biomarker for stage I and II OSCC.

ABCG2 expression was observed in 31.4% of OSCC patients in this study, and our data indicates that ABCG2 expression is related with invasion mode and is not associated with tumor size, differentiation, metastasis, and survival rate. However, there were few reports associated with ABCG2 expression and cancer cell invasion. On the other hand, it has been shown that ABCG2 expression was associated with malignant transformation of oral leukoplakia (OL), oral lichen planus (OLP), or oral erythroplakia (OE) (17,32,33). ABCG2 expression was observed in 36 of 103 patients with untransformed OL and 22 of 32 patients with malignant transformed OL (32). Additionally, ABCG2 expression was detected in 21 and 35% untransformed OLP and OE patients, respectively, and upon malignant transformation, expression rates markedly increased to 69 and 88%, respectively (17,33). Although additional experiments are needed to determine whether ABCG2-positive cells are CSCs in oral potentially malignant disorders, these patterns of ABCG2 expression may reveal its potential as an early detection biomarker in precancerous lesions.

CD24 expressions seemed to be implicated in tumor cell proliferation, cell-cell interactions, adhesion, and decreased E-cadherin expression (34,35). The relationship between CD24 expression and YK classification of OSCC observed in this study might be caused by the decreased E-cadherin expression induced through CD24 overexpression. In breast tumors, CD24 positive cancer cells can be spread more rapidly (36). CD24 is also considered a potential target for treatment, as previous studies showed that CD24-specific antibodies can inhibit the growth of human colorectal and pancreatic cancer cell lines (19,34). These authors had suggested that the shift from the membranous CD24 localization to the cytoplasm found in well-differentiated tumors could reflect the transition of epithelial cells to a more invasive phenotype (19,34). However, our study did not reveal any significant associations between CD24 expression and prognosis or other clinicopathologic features, and our results are consistent with other studies in OSCC (12,32).

BMI-1 expression was not associated with tumor size, differentiation, invasion mode, or lymph node metastasis in this study. High BMI-1 overexpression was connected to poor prognosis in nasopharyngeal cancer, breast cancer and hepatocellular carcinoma (16,18). In this study, BMI-1 expression in the OSCC patients led to better prognosis, but lack of BMI-1 expression was related with worse prognosis caused by distant metastasis. The reason was thought that the Bmi-1 expression would be related with distant metastasis of OSCC in this study. Several studies have shown that high BMI-1 expression was associated with poor prognosis (16,18). However, Pietersen et al also reported a correlation between high expression of BMI-1 and better outcome in OSCC patients (26). These discrepancies may be due to the different types of epithelium in the population groups, the type of cancers, the population ethnicities, and differences in the underlying molecular mechanisms.

The present results show that ALDH1 was significantly associated with histological differentiation, invasion mode and lymph node metastasis. Moreover, multivariate analysis showed that ALDH1 expression was the only prognostic factor for disease-free survival rate. Overexpression of ALDH1 leads to increased cell proliferation and, notably, to increased resistance to chemotherapeutic agents (32). Several studies have reported an association between ALDH1-positive tumors and poor clinical prognosis in breast, lung, pancreatic, and prostate cancer (37). In this study, ALDH1 expression was observed in 25.7% of OSCC patients, which is similar as the ALDH1 expression rate compared with other cancers (37–39). We also found that increased ALDH1 expression correlated with poor disease-free survival of OSCC patients. However, contrasting results have also been reported. For instance, Chang et al reported that ALDH1 expression correlated with favorable prognosis in a group of ovarian cancer patients, which included 266 serous ovarian cancer patients and 176 non-serous ovarian cancer patients (38). In addition, Dimou et al reported that non-small cell lung cancer patients with high expression of ALDH1 had longer survival and lower recurrence rates (39). Thus, more prospective studies are needed to draw a definite conclusion. CSCs have major phenotype and functional heterogeneities, which may help distinguish them from cancer cells and may be of potential benefit in the development of anticancer therapies to improve clinical outcomes. Therefore, the present study supports the idea that ALDH1 could be a CSC marker, because of the significant correlation between ALDH1-positive OSCC patients and common clinical parameters, such as histological differentiation, invasion mode (YK classification), metastasis, and survival rate. The present findings suggested that ALDH1 positively in OSCC were likely to correlate with the number of cells undergoing epithelial mesenchymal transition and a process for the formation of metastasis.

We evaluated 68 biopsy samples and 2 surgery samples. However, biopsy tissues might not reflect the whole part of tumors. The present findings of this study might not be the results of CSC marker expression of the whole tumors. We should need to investigate the confirmation of this study.

In conclusion, our study indicated that the expression of ALDH1 could be an effective CSC marker to indicate the outcome of early stage OSCC patients.

Acknowledgements

Not applicable.

Funding

This study was supported in JSPS KAKENHI (grant no. 15K11294).

Availability of data and materials

The datasets analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Authors' contributions

NT, GO, KA, and TN analyzed and interpreted the patient data. TT and YM performed the histological examination and TT was a major contributor in writing the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Ethics approval and consent

This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Tokushima University Hospital (approval no. 2516).

Consent for publication

Consent was obtained from all patients for the publication of their data.

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Tamatani T, Takamaru N, Ohe G, Akita K, Nakagawa T and Miyamoto Y: Expression of CD44, CD44v9, ABCG2, CD24, Bmi‑1 and ALDH1 in stage I and II oral squamous cell carcinoma and their association with clinicopathological factors. Oncol Lett 16: 1133-1140, 2018
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Tamatani, T., Takamaru, N., Ohe, G., Akita, K., Nakagawa, T., & Miyamoto, Y. (2018). Expression of CD44, CD44v9, ABCG2, CD24, Bmi‑1 and ALDH1 in stage I and II oral squamous cell carcinoma and their association with clinicopathological factors. Oncology Letters, 16, 1133-1140. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2018.8703
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Tamatani, T., Takamaru, N., Ohe, G., Akita, K., Nakagawa, T., Miyamoto, Y."Expression of CD44, CD44v9, ABCG2, CD24, Bmi‑1 and ALDH1 in stage I and II oral squamous cell carcinoma and their association with clinicopathological factors". Oncology Letters 16.1 (2018): 1133-1140.
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Tamatani, T., Takamaru, N., Ohe, G., Akita, K., Nakagawa, T., Miyamoto, Y."Expression of CD44, CD44v9, ABCG2, CD24, Bmi‑1 and ALDH1 in stage I and II oral squamous cell carcinoma and their association with clinicopathological factors". Oncology Letters 16, no. 1 (2018): 1133-1140. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2018.8703