Proliferative activities in 181 primary Borrmann type 4 gastric carcinomas were investigated using percentage labelling of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) and an argyrophilic nucleolar organiser region (AgNOR) count. Tumours with a high proliferative activity often metastasised to lymph nodes (P<0.01), and these patients had a lower survival rate (P<0.05). A significant correlation wa...

In order to extend our knowledge concerning karyotypes of the genus Vernonia, we applied various techniques of chromosome banding, including AgNOR and triple staining with the fluorochromes CMA/DA/DAPI (CDD), and of fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) for the 45S rDNA probe to specimens of two populations of Vernonia geminata collected from an open-pasture area, in southern Brazil. B chrom...

OBJECTIVE Nucleolar organizer region (NOR) associated proteins are argyrophilic and visualized by silver stains. AgNOR pleomorphic dots increase in cancer and most researchers have done a common count of single dots. Pleomorphic dots are few and perhaps indicate a more severe prognosis. The present study was aimed at investigating the relative preponderance and diagnostic value of both pleomorp...

AIM To evaluate the interphase ribosomal RNA cistron activity of cardiomyocytes in case with ischaemic heart disease complicated by heart failure. METHODS Nucleoli were investigated in postmortem myocardium samples from 31 cases with ischaemic heart disease (mean (SEM), 57.4 (6.5) years) with or without severe heart failure (18 and 13, respectively) and from eight healthy people who died in a...

Nucleolar organiser regions represent nucleolar activity in both normal and malignant cells. More numerous nucleolar organiser regions have been found in cells from many forms of malignancy than in normal cells. An argyrophilic method of staining these regions (the AgNOR technique) has been applied to specimens of pleura obtained by biopsy or at necropsy in an attempt to differentiate between n...

background and aims. several diagnostic methods are being employed to detect benign and malignant lesions, one of which is silver nitrate staining for organizer regions. the number of nucleolar organizing regions (nors) can be used to show the degree of cell activity or metabolism in pathologic lesions. this study was designed to evaluate nors as determinants of precancerous and squamous cell c...

OBJECTIVE To perform a comparative study of the cellular proliferation in the peripheral and central fibromas. MATERIAL AND METHODS Immunohistochemistry for PCNA and the AgNOR technique were performed in 9 cases of peripheral odontogenic fibroma (POF), in 4 cases of odontogenic fibroma (OdF), in 8 cases of peripheral ossifying fibroma (PEOF) and 7 cases of ossifying fibroma (OsF). The Kruskal...

Proliferative activities in 91 primary gastric carcinomas and 36 corresponding metastatic perigastric lymph nodes were investigated using Ki-67 labeling percentage and an argyrophilic nucleolar organizer region (AgNOR) count. Tumors with a high proliferative activity often metastasized to lymph nodes, and the proliferative activities of the primary lesion and the perigastric lymph node metastas...

We have undertaken an attempt to compare the application efficacy of the proliferative activity markers in differential diagnosis of thyroid Hürthle cell tumors (HCT) using the PCNA and Ki-67 labeling and AgNOR visualisation techniques. The present work is a retrospective analysis of 78 Hürthle cell tumors: 20 Hürthle cell carcinomas (HCC), 32 Hürthle cell adenomas (HCA) and 26 hyperplastic nod...

S AND ORAL PRESENTATIONS 1. T.Solymosi, V.Toth, M.Bodo, I.Gal. Evaluation of nucleolar organizer region-associated proteins in thyroid cytopathology. Acta Cytol 1993, 37, 622 2. T.Solymosi, I.Gal, I.Györi. Nucleolar organizer regions in colonic cytopreparations. Acta Cytol, 1993, 37, 622-623 3. I.Gal, T.Solymosi, I.Györi. Comparison of nucleolar organizer regions in cytopreparations derived fro...