Abstract
Acidic and basic fibroblast growth factors (aFGF and bFGF) are closely related peptide mitogens acting on both mesoderm‐ and neuroectoderm‐derived cells, including fibroblasts, endothelial cells and glial cells. In order to identify the expression of mRNAs for these growth factors, in situ hybridization using human aFGF and bFGF RNA probes was performed in 24 human brain tumors. The mRNAs for aFGF and bFGF were expressed in the cells of various tumors (1/1 and 1/1 astrocytoma, 2/2 and 2/2 anaplastic astrocytomas, 6/6 and 6/6 glioblastomas, 4/4 and 4/4 meningiomas, 3/3 and 3/3 schwannomas, 1/2 and 1/2 pituitary adenomas, 4/4 and 4/4 metastatic carcinomas, 0/1 and 0/1 hemangioblastoma, 0/1 and 0/1 craniopharyngioma) and were also detected in endothelial cells and surrounding neuronal cells of brain tumors. These results suggest the possibilities that aFGF and bFGF contribute to the uncontrolled growth of tumor cells and the proliferation of endothelial cells in autocrine and paracrine manners, and that the expression of mRNAs for these growth factors in the surrounding neuronal cells results in enhancement of tumor growth.
Keywords: Fibroblast growth factor, Polymerase chain reaction, In situ hybridization – Human brain tumor
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