The NOTCH signaling is an evolutionarily conserved signaling pathway that regulates cell-cell interactions. NOTCH family members play a fundamental role in a variety of processes during development in particular in cell fate decisions. As other crucial factors during embryogenesis, NOTCH signaling is aberrantly reactivated in cancer where it has been linked to context-dependent effects. In thyroid cancer, NOTCH1 expression has been associated to aggressive features even if its in vivo expression within the entire spectrum of thyroid tumors has not definitively established. A series of 106 thyroid specimens including non-neoplastic lesions, benign and malignant tumors of common and rare histotypes, were investigated by immunohistochemistry to assess NOTCH1 expression. Extent of positivity and protein localization were investigated and correlated with clinical and morphological parameters. NOTCH1 positivity was predominantly associated with papillary carcinomas and only occasionally found in follicular carcinomas. Poorly differentiated and undifferentiated thyroid carcinomas showed only a partial positivity. NOTCH1 expression pattern also seemed differently distributed according to histotype. Our data confirm a role of NOTCH1 in thyroid cancer and highlight for the first time the specific involvement of this pathway in papillary carcinomas. Our data also indicate that other thyroid malignancies do not rely on NOTCH1 signaling for development and progression.

Expression of NOTCH1 in thyroid cancer is mostly restricted to papillary carcinoma / Piana, Simonetta; Zanetti, Eleonora; Bisagni, Alessandra; Ciarrocchi, Alessia; Giordano, Davide; Torricelli, Federica; Rossi, Teresa; Ragazzi, Moira. - In: ENDOCRINE CONNECTIONS. - ISSN 2049-3614. - 8:8(2019), pp. 1089-1096. [10.1530/EC-19-0303]

Expression of NOTCH1 in thyroid cancer is mostly restricted to papillary carcinoma

Torricelli, Federica;Ragazzi, Moira
2019

Abstract

The NOTCH signaling is an evolutionarily conserved signaling pathway that regulates cell-cell interactions. NOTCH family members play a fundamental role in a variety of processes during development in particular in cell fate decisions. As other crucial factors during embryogenesis, NOTCH signaling is aberrantly reactivated in cancer where it has been linked to context-dependent effects. In thyroid cancer, NOTCH1 expression has been associated to aggressive features even if its in vivo expression within the entire spectrum of thyroid tumors has not definitively established. A series of 106 thyroid specimens including non-neoplastic lesions, benign and malignant tumors of common and rare histotypes, were investigated by immunohistochemistry to assess NOTCH1 expression. Extent of positivity and protein localization were investigated and correlated with clinical and morphological parameters. NOTCH1 positivity was predominantly associated with papillary carcinomas and only occasionally found in follicular carcinomas. Poorly differentiated and undifferentiated thyroid carcinomas showed only a partial positivity. NOTCH1 expression pattern also seemed differently distributed according to histotype. Our data confirm a role of NOTCH1 in thyroid cancer and highlight for the first time the specific involvement of this pathway in papillary carcinomas. Our data also indicate that other thyroid malignancies do not rely on NOTCH1 signaling for development and progression.
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Expression of NOTCH1 in thyroid cancer is mostly restricted to papillary carcinoma / Piana, Simonetta; Zanetti, Eleonora; Bisagni, Alessandra; Ciarrocchi, Alessia; Giordano, Davide; Torricelli, Federica; Rossi, Teresa; Ragazzi, Moira. - In: ENDOCRINE CONNECTIONS. - ISSN 2049-3614. - 8:8(2019), pp. 1089-1096. [10.1530/EC-19-0303]
Piana, Simonetta; Zanetti, Eleonora; Bisagni, Alessandra; Ciarrocchi, Alessia; Giordano, Davide; Torricelli, Federica; Rossi, Teresa; Ragazzi, Moira
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