Recently, a novel antiapoptosis gene, i.e., survivin, was identified as a structurally unique member of the inhibitor of apoptosis protein family. Survivin expression is turned off during fetal development and not found in non-neoplastic adult human tissues but is again turned on in the most common human cancers. The antiapoptotic properties of survivin might provide a significant growth advant...

BACKGROUND OCT4 and Survivin are important factors for cancer cell proliferation, renewal and dedifferentiation, and correlate with resistance to radiotherapy and chemotherapy in most human cancers, but their regulatory mechanisms are not well known. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS In this study, 50 patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) were retrospectively analyzed. OCT4 was...

To study survivin gene expression in APL cells and to explore its correlation with clinical manifestations. PML/RARα and survivin mRNA expression were analysed using RT-PCR. By treatment of ATRA, the survivin mRNA expression in NB4 cells gradually decreased with time and was almost undetectable in the 72th hour. Survivin was expressed in 67% of the 36 APL cases (de novo and relapse patients) wi...

Survivin is a member of the inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) family and has multifunctional properties that include aspects of proliferation, invasion and cell survival control. Survivin is a promising candidate for targeted cancer therapy as its expression is associated with poor clinical outcome and more aggressive clinicopathologic features. Retinoblastoma (RB) is a highly invasive malignant tum...

Survivin, a member of the inhibitor of apoptosis protein family, affects tumorigenesis. Recently, survivin is reported to be a target of the canonical Wnt pathway, which activates the transcription of various tumor-associated target genes. One hundred and twenty-two non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLCs) were investigated to evaluate survivin gene expression in relation to the expression of Wnt1 ...

Background : The aim of this study was to investigate the expressions of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and survivin in bladder transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) that has different clinicopathologic characteristics, and we also wanted to determine if a relation exists between the COX-2 and survivin expressions. Methods : The expressions of COX-2 and survivin were investigated in 80 bladder TCCs by pe...

Survivin is a crucial node molecule involved in apoptosis, cell division and drug discovery. Up-regulation of survivin in the tissues of oral submucous fibrosis (OSF) and oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) originated from OSF has already been demonstrated. Survivin Thr34 phosphorylation is involved in the inhibition of apoptosis and cell division. To determine the potential involvement of surv...

BACKGROUND Survivin is an inhibitor of apoptosis protein involved in the regulation of cell proliferation that could be used as a marker for cancer diagnosis or prognosis. Our aim was to evaluate whether serum survivin levels influence the outcome of cisplatin-based chemotherapy in patients with malignant mesothelioma (MM). METHODS Serum survivin levels were determined using human survivin en...

CONTEXT Thyroid cancer incidence has increased significantly during the past decades and is the most common type of endocrine malignancy. Many factors in thyroid cancers were studied as independent predictors of a poor prognosis. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to evaluate survivin expression - BIRC5 and its splice variants: survivin delta Ex3 and survivin 2B in benign and malignant ...

BACKGROUND Results in previous qualitative studies of the association of the apoptosis inhibitor survivin with prognosis of breast cancer patients have been contradictory. METHODS Survivin mRNA was measured by quantitative TaqMan reverse transcription-PCR in 275 breast cancer tissues from patients with operable tumors and was correlated with established clinicopathologic factors, relapse-free...