Molecular patho-epidemiological study on the etiological background for oral superficial carcinoma among Asian ethnic groups

About This Project

Japan Grant Number
JP25305035 (JGN)
Funding Program
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Funding Organization
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Kakenhi Information

Project/Area Number
25305035
Research Category
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Allocation Type
  • Partial Multi-year Fund
Review Section / Research Field
  • Biological Sciences > Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy > Dentistry > Morphological basic dentistry
Research Institution
  • Niigata University
Project Period (FY)
2013-04-01 〜 2017-03-31
Project Status
Completed
Budget Amount*help
18,200,000 Yen (Direct Cost: 14,000,000 Yen Indirect Cost: 4,200,000 Yen)

Research Abstract

To investigate the epidemiological and biological backgrounds for the occurrence of oral superficial carcinomas, which are recently increasing in number in Japan with an aging population, we collected those cases from several Asian countries as controls. We firstly established a science/evidence-based standard for histopathological diagnosis of oral superficial carcinomas, with which we eliminated diagnostic disparities among hospitals from those countries. As a result, we confirmed that our new diagnostic standard based on combined expressions of some particular molecules was useful for any cases whose ethnic and etiological backgrounds were obviously different from each other. Hence, we were successful in demonstrating the diagnostic standard certainly worked in any occasions. Among the expressions of the particular molecules, those of keratin 17 were shown by our cell machinery investigations to characterize dyskeratotic carcinoma cells, which mimicked epidermal orthokeratosis.

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