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Previous issue date: 2008 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Nesta tese de mestrado, apresentamos, de acordo com as recomendações da comissão especial do programa de Pós-Graduação em Endocrinologia da Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), um trabalho em forma de manuscrito que será submetido à revista Clinical Endocrinology. Identificamos genes cuja expressão estava diminuída nas bibliotecas de carcinoma folicular de tiróide (FTC): TPO, TFF3, NR4A1 e IYD. O NR4A1 foi selecionado para uma análise mais profunda, por apresentar expressão potencialmente tecido-específica. Passamos então à validação do padrão diferencial de expressão em tecidos neoplásicos e não-neoplásicos, pela técnica de PCR em tempo real, assim como a realização de experimentos em linhagens celulares, com o uso de lítio. Estes são os focos desta tese e estão descritos no manuscrito “Downregulation of NR4A1 in follicular thyroid carcinoma cell line is restored after lithium treatment”, tendo como objetivos: 1) Validar a expressão de NR4A1 nos tecidos benignos e malignos da tiróide. 2) Avaliar a correlação dos genes CCND1 e FOSB com a expressão de NR4A1. 3) Verificar a expressão dos genes NR4A1, CCDN1 e FOSB nas linhagens de carcinoma tiroidiano disponíveis no laboratório, com objetivo de indetificar um modelo semelhante a expressão observada nos tecidos. 4) Verificar se a expressão dos genes NR4A1, FOSB e CCDN1 poderia ser restabelecida quando tratadas com lítio.. / Introduction: The identification of follicular thyroid adenoma-associated transcripts will lead to a better understanding of the events involved in pathogenesis and progression of follicular tumors. Using Serial Analysis of Gene Expression, we identified five genes that are absent in a malignant follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) library, but expressed in follicular adenoma (FTA) and normal thyroid libraries. Methods: NR4A1, one of the five genes, was validated in a set of 27 normal thyroid tissues, 10 FTAs and 14 FTCs and three thyroid carcinoma cell lines by real time PCR. NR4A1 can be transiently increased by a variety of stimuli, including lithium, which is used as adjuvant therapy of thyroid carcinoma with 131I. We tested if lithium could restore NR4A1 expression. The expression of other genes potentially involved in the same signaling pathway was tested. To this end, lithium was used at different concentration (10mM or 20mM) and time (2h and 24 h) and the level of expression was tested by quantitative PCR. We next tested if Lithium could affect cell growth and apoptosis. Results: We observed that NR4A1 expression was under-expressed in most of the FTCs investigated, compared to expression in normal thyroid tissues and FTAs. We also found a positive correlation between NR4A1 and FOSB gene expression. Lithium induced NR4A1 and FOSB expression, reduced CCDN1 expression, inhibited cell growth and triggered apoptosis in a FTC cell line. Conclusions: NR4A1 is under-expressed in most of FTCs. The loss of expression of both NR4A1 and the Wnt pathway gene FOSB was correlated with malignancy. This is consistent with the hypothesis that its loss of expression is part of the transformation process of FTCs, either as a direct or indirect consequence of Wnt pathway alterations. Lithium restores NR4A1 expression, induces apoptosis and reduces cell growth. These findings may explain a possible molecular mechanism of lithium’s therapeutic action. / FAPESP: 05/60330-8 / BV UNIFESP: Teses e dissertações
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:IBICT/oai:repositorio.unifesp.br:11600/23961 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Camacho, Cléber Pinto [UNIFESP] |
| Contributors | Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Maciel, Rui Monteiro de Barros [UNIFESP] |
| Publisher | Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) |
| Source Sets | IBICT Brazilian ETDs |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Format | 38 p. |
| Source | reponame:Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP, instname:Universidade Federal de São Paulo, instacron:UNIFESP |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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