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FOXO3 and PTEN expression in the ovary of girls with extra-gonadal cancer with or without chemotherapy treatment prior to cryopreservation.
Albamonte, María Itatí; Calabró, Lara Y; Albamonte, Mirta S; Vitullo, Alfredo D.
Afiliação
  • Albamonte MI; Centro de Estudios Biomédicos Básicos, Aplicados y Desarrollo -CEBBAD, Universidad Maimónides, Hidalgo 775, C1405BCK, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Calabró LY; Centro de Estudios Biomédicos Básicos, Aplicados y Desarrollo -CEBBAD, Universidad Maimónides, Hidalgo 775, C1405BCK, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Albamonte MS; Centro de Estudios Biomédicos Básicos, Aplicados y Desarrollo -CEBBAD, Universidad Maimónides, Hidalgo 775, C1405BCK, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Vitullo AD; Centro de Estudios Biomédicos Básicos, Aplicados y Desarrollo -CEBBAD, Universidad Maimónides, Hidalgo 775, C1405BCK, Buenos Aires, Argentina. vitullo.alfredo@maimonides.edu.
BMC Womens Health ; 23(1): 509, 2023 09 22.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37737182
BACKGROUND: FOXO3/pFOXO3 and PTEN expression is known to regulate the dormancy/activation of ovarian primordial follicles. How chemotherapy could influence the expression of FOXO3 and PTEN in pre- and post-menarcheal girls with extra-gonadal cancer remains unexplored. METHODS: Ovarian samples were collected from 27 girls suffering from extra-gonadal cancer. Of these, 8 patients had received chemotherapy before the time of sample collection. Ovarian tissue collected at the time of surgery was fixed in 10% formaldehyde for FOXO3/pFOXO3 and PTEN immunohistochemistry or immunofluorescence, or stored at -80 °C for Western blot, or preserved in RNA later for RT-PCR. RESULTS: PTEN was detected in a limited number of primordial follicle-enclosed oocytes in approximately fifty percent of the patients, regardless of whether they had received anti-cancer treatment or not. However, there was a significant decrease in PTEN detection in patients who underwent chemotherapy treatment prior to the retrieval of the sample. Both primordial follicle-enclosed oocytes that expressed FOXO3 and those that did not were identified in patients who were treated with chemotherapy and those who were not. FOXO3-positive primordial follicles exhibited either nuclear FOXO3 localization or cytoplasmic pFOXO3 localization. Furthermore, transitional primordial follicles that expressed nuclear FOXO3 and cytoplasmic pFOXO3 were also observed. Primary follicle-enclosed oocytes displayed cytoplasmic pFOXO3 localization, whereas in more advanced stages of folliculogenesis, the expression moved to the somatic stratum. No significant statistical differences were identified in the detection of FOXO3 and pFOXO3 in patients who had or had not received chemotherapy prior to sample collection. CONCLUSION: Primordial follicles expressing and not expressing FOXO3 were equally present in both the ovaries of patients who underwent chemotherapy and those who did not. The expression of FOXO3 remained unaltered in response to chemotherapy treatment. Notably, the detection of PTEN was significantly reduced in the treated patients, thereby warranting in-depth investigation, given the limited sample size examined in the present study.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Ovário / Neoplasias Limite: Female / Humans Idioma: En Revista: BMC Womens Health Assunto da revista: SAUDE DA MULHER Ano de publicação: 2023 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Argentina País de publicação: Reino Unido

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Ovário / Neoplasias Limite: Female / Humans Idioma: En Revista: BMC Womens Health Assunto da revista: SAUDE DA MULHER Ano de publicação: 2023 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Argentina País de publicação: Reino Unido