• 1. Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan 646000, P. R. China;
  • 2. Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The Sichuan Mianyang 404 Hospital, Mianyang, Sichuan 621000, P. R. China;
  • 3. Department of Pathology, The Sichuan Mianyang 404 Hospital, Mianyang, Sichuan 621000, P. R. China;
JIANG Huaiwu, Email: jhuaiwu@163.com
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Objective To investigate the correlation between expression of stromal interaction molecule 1 (STIM1) and tumor malignant degree or lymph node metastasis in patients with gastric cancer. Methods A total of 83 patients with gastric cancer treated in the Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University and Sichuan Mianyang 404 Hospital from October 2018 to April 2021 were collected. The expression of STIM1 protein in the gastric cancer tissues and the corresponding adjacent normal gastric tissues was detected by immunohistochemistry method. Meanwhile the correlation between the expression of STIM1 protein and clinicopathologic features or postoperative lymph node status of the patients with gastric cancer was analyzed. Results The positive rate of STIM1 protein expression in the gastric cancer tissues was 95.2% (79/83), including 62 (74.7%) patients with high expression (STIM1 scoring 5–7) and 21 (25.3%) patients with low expression (STIM1 scoring 2–4), which in the corresponding adjacent normal gastric tissues was 41.0% (34/83), the difference was statistically significant (χ2=58.078, P<0.001). The expression of STIM1 protein was not related to gender, age, and tumor size of the patients with gastric cancer (P>0.05), while the proportions of the patients with high expression of STIM1 protein in the gastric cancer patients with low/undifferentiated tumor, T3+T4 of infiltration depth, TNM stage Ⅲ, and lymph node metastasis were higher than those with high/medium differentiation (χ2=11.052, P=0.001), T1+T2 of infiltration depth (χ2=24.720, P<0.001), TNM stage Ⅰ+Ⅱ (χ2=9.980, P=0.002), and non-lymph node metastasis (χ2=6.097, P=0.014). The expression intensity of STIM1 protein was positively correlated with the number of lymph node metastasis (r=0.552, Z=–3.098, P=0.002) and the rate of lymph node metastasis (r=0.561, Z=–6.387, P<0.001). Conclusions Positive rate of STIM1 protein expression in gastric cancer tissues is relatively high. STIM1 protein expression in gastric cancer tissue is closely related to tumor malignancy and lymph node metastasis, so it might play an important role in progression of gastric cancer.

Citation: MA Bo, JIANG Huaiwu, XU Liang, XIAO Guo, YANG Siyu. Correlation between stromal interaction molecule 1 and tumor malignant degree or lymph node metastasis in patients with gastric cancer. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2022, 29(4): 465-469. doi: 10.7507/1007-9424.202107031 Copy

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