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Expression of Somatostatin Receptor Subtypes 2 and 4 in Human Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and Prostatic Cancer by Jens Hansson; Anders Bjartell; Virgil Gadaleanu; Nishtman Dizeyi; Per‐Anders Abrahamsson is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Background: The presence of receptor subtypes for the inhibitory peptide somatostatin in prostatic tissue has been a controversial issue with conflicting reports. to elucidate whether prostatic epithelial cells express mrna for somatostatin receptor (sstr) subtype 2 and 4, we have investigated the localization of sstr2 and sstr4 transcripts in prostatic tissues by in situ hybridization. ## Methods: Nonradioactive in situ hybridization was performed with specific fluorescein-labeled sstr2 and sstr4 riboprobes on consecutive sections of benign prostatic hyperplasia (bph) and prostate cancer tissues. ## Results: We report, for the first time, tissue localization of sstr2 and sstr4 mrna in bph and malignant cells of human prostate. hybridization signals for sstr4 mrna transcripts were confined to the prostatic epithelium (12 of 16 bph cases, and in 12 of 13 carcinoma cases), whereas sstr2 transcripts were predominantly localized in the stromal compartment but also were detectable in epithelial cells in a significant number of specimens (11 of 17 bph cases, and in 12 of 14 carcinoma cases). furthermore, the staining intensity for sstr2 and sstr4 transcripts is stronger in malignant c

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Author

Jens Hansson; Anders Bjartell; Virgil Gadaleanu; Nishtman Dizeyi; Per‐Anders Abrahamsson

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0270-4137)

Published

2002

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)