maspin gene expression in invasive ductal carcinoma of breast

background: the breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among women, on the other hand absence of myoepithelial cells play a pivotal role in pathogenesis of this cancer. thus we aimed to investigate the possible abilities of the molecular assay technique to find a relationship between mammary serine protease inhibitor (maspin) gene expression possibly secreted by myoepithelial cells, grade of breast cancer and other prognostics factors (er, pr, and c-erb-b2). methods: paraffin embedded blocks of 31 breast cancer patients together with two normal breast tissues were used for ihc staining and maspin gene rna detection uses the real-time pcr method. applying qiagen kit, we were able to measure maspin rna and extract the cdna of different samples for evaluating the maspin rna level. results: we found that the rna level was considerably lowerin these cancer samples compared with normal samples. in addition, different grades of breast cancer in the obtained results adopt some distinguishable values. the maspin expression in samples with grades ii and iii is much lower than the ones in normal group (p