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Session X : Cell death in cancer Poster X, 105<br />

Significant co-expression of GLUT-1, Bcl-xl <strong>and</strong> Bax in colorectal cancer.<br />

Andrzej Wincewicz, Mariola Sulkowska, Mariusz Koda, Luiza Kanczuga-Koda,<br />

Stanislaw Sulkowski.<br />

Department of Pathology, Medical University of Bialystok, Waszyngtona 13, 15-269<br />

Bialystok, Pol<strong>and</strong>. E-mail: sulek@zeus.amb.edu.pl<br />

Hypoxic cancer cells overexpress GLUT-1 (Glucose transporter 1) to accelerate glucose<br />

intake mainly for low effective, anaerobic respiration, so that they wouldn’t die of oxygen<br />

deficiency. Ischemic cell injury triggers apoptosis. Regulators of cell suicide like Bax <strong>and</strong><br />

Bcl-xl combine their functions to cause apoptosis or to rescue cells from death. GLUT-1, Bax<br />

<strong>and</strong> Bcl-xl are of prognostic significance in colorectal cancer but they have not been<br />

compared, yet. Thus, we aimed to determine eventual correlations between GLUT-1, Bax <strong>and</strong><br />

Bcl-xl in association with different clinicopathological features of colorectal cancer patients.<br />

Expressions of the proteins were evaluated in specimens of 150 colorectal patients by<br />

immunohistochemistry with appliance of specific antibodies. The levels of tissue expressions<br />

were statistically analyzed with Spearman’s correlation test. Similarly to all the patients,<br />

GLUT-1 matched Bcl-xl <strong>and</strong> Bax in statistically significant manner regardless node<br />

involvement, grade of histological differentiation, histopathological type, tumor site, sex <strong>and</strong><br />

age of patients. GLUT-1 correlated highly with Bcl-xl in both T2 <strong>and</strong> T3 tumors<br />

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