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Evaluation of cannabinoid CB1 and CB2 receptors expression in mobile tongue squamous cell carcinoma: associations with clinicopathological parameters and patients’ survival

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Title
Evaluation of cannabinoid CB1 and CB2 receptors expression in mobile tongue squamous cell carcinoma: associations with clinicopathological parameters and patients’ survival
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Tumor Biology, October 2015
DOI 10.1007/s13277-015-4182-8
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Stamatios Theocharis, Constantinos Giaginis, Paraskevi Alexandrou, Jose Rodriguez, Jason Tasoulas, Eugene Danas, Efstratios Patsouris, Jerzy Klijanienko

Abstract

Cannabinoid receptors (CB1R and CB2R) constitute essential members of the endocannabinoid system (ECS) which participates in many different functions indispensable to homeostatic regulation in several tissues, exerting also antitumorigenic effects. The present study aimed to assess the clinical significance of CB1R and CB2R protein expression in mobile tongue squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). CB1R and CB2R expression was assessed immunohistochemically on 28 mobile tongue SCC tissue samples and was analyzed in relation with clinicopathological characteristics and overall and disease-free patients' survival. CB1R, CB2R, and concomitant CB1R/CB2R expression was significantly increased in older compared to younger mobile tongue SCC patients (p = 0.0243, p = 0.0079, and p = 0.0366, respectively). Enhanced CB2R and concomitant CB1R/CB2R expression was significantly more frequently observed in female compared to male mobile tongue SCC patients (p = 0.0025 and p = 0.0016, respectively). Elevated CB2R expression was significantly more frequently observed in mobile tongue SCC patients presenting well-defined tumor shape compared to those with diffuse (p = 0.0430). Mobile tongue SCC patients presenting enhanced CB1R, CB2R, or concomitant CB1R/CB2R expression showed significantly longer overall (log-rank test, p = 0.004, p = 0.011, p = 0.018, respectively) and disease-free (log-rank test, p = 0.003, p = 0.007, p = 0.027, respectively) survival times compared to those with low expression. In multivariate analysis, CB1R was identified as an independent prognostic factor for disease-free patients' survival (Cox-regression analysis, p = 0.032). The present study provides evidence that CB1R and CB2R may play a role in the pathophysiological aspects of the mobile tongue SCC and even each molecule may constitute a potential target for the development of novel anti-cancer drugs for this type of malignancy.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 5 17%
Student > Bachelor 4 13%
Other 2 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 7%
Other 5 17%
Unknown 10 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 27%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 17%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 3%
Unspecified 1 3%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 11 37%
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