Purpose: Recent studies suggest that tumor microenvironment (stroma) is important in carcinogenesis and progression. We sought to integrate global genomic structural and expressional alterations in prostate cancer epithelium and stroma and their association with clinicopathologic features. Experimental Design: We conducted a genome-wide LOH/allelic imbalance (AI) scan of DNA from epithelium and...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to determine whether intrastromal injection of adenoviral construct could be used to transfect corneal stroma cells effectively in vivo and to determine whether a tissue-specific promoter could be used to express exogenous genes in keratocytes. METHODS An adenoviral construct with a cytomegalovirus (pCMV)-driven enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) report...

The aim of this study was to investigate the relative contribution of direct contact with stromal cells v stromal cell-derived soluble mediators to the differentiation of B lymphocytes and cells from other hematopoietic lineages. This was investigated by making a comparison between hemopoietic cells grown in direct contact with stroma to those in diffusion chambers (DCs) placed over purified po...

The generation of vascular stroma is essential for solid tumor growth and involves stimulatory and inhibiting factors as well as stromal components that regulate functions such as cellular adhesion, migration, and gene expression. In an effort to obtain a more integrated understanding of vascular stroma formation in breast carcinoma, we examined expression of the angiogenic factor vascular perm...

Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes may be a manifestation of antitumor immunity. In the present study, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and pericancerous non-tumor liver tissues samples were obtained from 86 surgical patients who had not received preoperative treatment. The cellular expression levels of CD4 and CD8 were immunohistochemically examined in the two tissue groups using tissue microarrays,...