Telomerase activity in lesions of the thyroid: Application to diagnosis of clinical samples including fine-needle aspirates

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1965-1970

  Aogi, Kenjiro ^a   Kitahara, Kenjiro ^a   Buley, Ian ^a   Backdahl, Martin ^b   Tahara, Hiditoshi ^c   Sugino, Takashi ^a   Tarin, David ^d,e   Goodison, Steve ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GRAVES DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID CARCINOMA;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; HUMANS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031850560     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Lowhagen, T., Willems, J. S., Lundell, G., Sundblad, R., and Granberg, P. O. Aspiration biopsy cytology in diagnosis of thyroid cancer. World J. Surg., 5: 61-73, 1981.
2. Suen, K. C., and Quenville, N. F. Fine needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid gland: a study of 304 cases. J. Clin. Pathol. (Lond.), 36: 1036-1045, 1983.
3. Silverman, J. F., West, R. L., Larkin, E. W., Park, H. K., Finley, J. L., Swanson, M. S., and Fore, W. W. The role of fine-needle aspiration biopsy in the rapid diagnosis and management of thyroid neoplasm. Cancer (Phila.), 57: 1164-1170, 1986.
4. Hawkins, F., Bellido, D., Bernal, C., Rigopoulou, D., Valdepenas, M. P. R., Lazaro, E., Perez-Barrios, A., and Agustin, P. Fine needle aspiration biopsy in the diagnosis of thyroid cancer and thyroid disease. Cancer (Phila.), 59: 1206-1209, 1987.
5. Burch, H. B., Burman, K. D., Reed, H. L., Buckner, L., Raber, T., and Ownbey, J. L. Fine needle aspiration of thyroid nodules. Determinants of insufficiency rate and malignancy yield at thyroidectomy. Acta Cytol., 40: 1176-1183, 1996.
6. Counter, C. M., Hirte, H. W., Bacchetti, S., and Harley, C. B. Telomerase activity in human ovarian carcinoma. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 91: 2900-2904, 1994.
7. Kim, N. W. Clinical implications of telomerase in cancer. Eur. J. Cancer, 33: 781-786, 1997.
8. Shay, J. W., and Gazdar, A. F. Telomerase in the early detection of cancer. J. Clin. Pathol. (Lond.), 50: 106-109, 1997.
9. Shay, J. W., and Bacchetti, S. A survey of telomerase activity in human cancer. Eur. J. Cancer, 33: 787-791, 1997.
10. Shay, J. W., Werbin, H., and Wright, W. E. You haven't heard the end of it: telomere loss may link human aging with cancer. Canadian J. Aging, 14: 511-524, 1995.
11. Rhyu, M. S. Telomeres, telomerase, and immortality. J. Natl. Cancer Inst., 87: 884-894, 1995.
12. Hastie, N. J., and Allshire, R. C. Human telomeres: fusion and interstitial sites. Trends Genet., 5: 326-331, 1989.
13. Zakian, V. A. Structure and function of telomeres. Annu. Rev. Genet., 23: 579-604, 1989.
14. Blackburn, E. H. Structure and function of telomeres. Nature (Lond.), 350: 569-573, 1991.
15. Watson, J. D. Origin of concatameric T7 DNA. Nat. New Biol., 239: 197-201, 1972.
16. Olovnikov, A. M. A theory of marginotomy. The incomplete copying of template margin in enzymatic synthesis of polynucleotides and biological significance of the phenomenon. J. Theor. Biol., 41: 181-190, 1973.
17. Harley, C. B. Telomere loss: mitotic clock or genetic time bomb? Mutat. Res., 256: 271-282, 1991.
18. Greider, C. W. Mammalian telomere dynamics: healing, fragmentation, shortening and stabilization. Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev., 4: 203-211, 1994.
19. Counter, C. M., Avilion, A. A., LeFeuvre, C. E., Atewart, N. G., Greider, C. W., Harley, C. B., and Bacchetti, S. Telomere shortening associated with chromosome instability is arrested in immortal cells which express telomerase activity. EMBO J., 11: 1921-1929, 1992.
20. Morin, G. B. The human telomere terminal transferase enzyme is a ribonucleoprotein that synthesizes TTAGGG repeats. Cell, 59: 521-529, 1989.
21. Greider, C. W., and Blackburn, E. H. The telomere terminal transferase of Tetrahymena is a ribonucleoprotein enzyme with two kinds of primer specificity. Cell, 51: 887-898, 1987.
22. Kim, N. W., Piatyszek, M. A., Prowse, K. R., Harley, C. B., West, M. D., Ho, P. L., Coviello, G. M., Wright, W. E., Weinrich, S. L., and Shay, J. W. Specific association of human telomerase activity with immortal cells and cancer. Science (Washington DC), 266: 2011-2015, 1994.
23. Hiyama, K., Hiyama, E., Ishioka, S., Yamakido, M., Inai, K., Gazdar, A. F., Piatyszek, M. A., and Shay, J. W. Telomerase activity in small-cell and non-small-cell lung cancers. J. Natl. Cancer Inst., 87: 895-902, 1995.
24. Hiyama, E., Yokoyama, T., Tatsumoto, N., Hiyama, K., Imamura, Y., Murakami, Y., Kodama, T., Piatyszek, M. A., Shay, J. W., and Matsuura, Y. Telomerase activity in gastric cancer. Cancer Res., 55: 3258-3262, 1995.
25. Tahara, H., Kuniyasu, H., Yokozaki, H., Yasui, W., Shay, J. W., Ide, T., and Tahara, E. Telomerase activity in preneoplastic and neoplastic gastric and colorectal lesions. Clin. Cancer Res., 1: 1245-1251, 1995.
26. Yoshida, K., Sugino, T., Tahara, H., Woodman, A., Bolodeoku, J., Nargund, V., Fellows, G., Goodison, S., Tahara, E., and Tarin, D. Telomerase activity in bladder carcinoma and its implication for non-invasive diagnosis by detection of exfoliated cancer cells in urine. Cancer (Phila.), 79: 362-369, 1997.
27. Haugen, B. R., Nawaz, S., Markham, N., Hashizum, T., Shroyer, A. L., Werness, B., and Shroyer, K. R. Telomerase activity in benign and malignant thyroid tumors. Thyroid, 7: 337-342, 1997.
28. Umbricht, C. B., Saji, M., Westra, W. H., Udelsman, R., Zeiger, M. A., and Sukumar, S. Telomerase activity: a marker to distinguish follicular thyroid adenoma from carcinoma. Cancer Res., 57: 2144-2147, 1997.
29. Yashima, K., Vuitch, F., Gazdar, A. F., and Fahey, T. J., III. Telomerase activity in benign and malignant thyroid diseases. Surgery (St Louis), 122: 1141-1145, 1997.
30. Saji, M., Westra, W. H., Chen, H., Umbricht, C. B., Tuttle, R. M., Box, M. F., Udelsman, R., Sukumar, S., and Zeiger, M. A. Telomerase activity in the differential diagnosis of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. Surgery (St Louis), 122: 1137-1140, 1997.
31. Wright, W. E., Shay, J. W., and Piatyszek, M. A. Modifications of a telomeric repeat amplification protocol (TRAP) result in increased reliability, linearity and sensitivity. Nucleic Acids Res., 23: 3794-3795, 1995.
32. Sugino, T., Yoshida, K., Bolodeoku, J., Tahara, H., Buley, I., Manek, S., Wells, C., Goodison, S., Ide, T., Suzuki, T., Tahara, E., and Tarin, D. Telomerase activity in human breast cancer and benign breast lesions: diagnostic applications in clinical specimens, including fine needle aspirates. Int. J. Cancer, 69: 301-306, 1996.
33. Yoshida, K., Sugino, T., Goodison, S., Bolodeoku, J., Warren, B., Nolan, D., Wadsworth, S., Mortensen, N. J., Toge, T., Tahara, E., and Tarin, D. Telomerase activity in exfoliated cancer cells in colon luminal washings and its clinical application to non-invasive detection of colon cancer. Br. J. Cancer, 75: 548-553, 1997.
34. Califano, J., Ahrendt, S. A., Meininger, G., Westra, W. H., Koch, W. M., and Sidransky, D. Detection of telomerase activity in oral rinses from head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients. Cancer Res., 56: 5720-5722, 1996.
35. Burch, H. B. Evaluation and management of the solid thyroid nodule. Endocrinol. Metab. Clin. N. Am., 24: 663-710, 1995.
36. Yashima, K., Piatyszek, M. A., Saboorian, H. M., Virmani, A. K., Brown, D., Shay, J. W., and Gazdar, A. F. Telomerase activity and in situ telomerase RNA expression in malignant and non-malignant lymph nodes. J. Clin. Pathol. (Lond.), 50: 110-117, 1997.