Although infrequently, mucin secretion has previously been reported in papillary renal cell carcinoma. We here investigate the presence of mucin in a series of 93 renal papillary adenomas in 58 patients. Acid mucin was present in four cases (4.3% of the tumors; 6.9% of the patients), in which basophilic mucin secretion was evident with hematoxylin-eosin. To the best of our knowledge mucin secre...

To investigate which retinoid receptors are critical in the regulation by all-trans-retinoic acid (RA) of the mucin genes MUC2, MUC5AC and MUC5B in cultured normal human tracheobronchial epithelial (NHTBE) cells, we used pan-RAR-, pan-RXR- and RAR- isotype (alpha, beta and gamma)-selective agonists and RARalpha- and RARgamma-selective antagonists (RAR is RA receptor and RXR is retinoid X recept...

Pancreatic cancer mucins have several carbohydrate antigens that are potentially useful in the detection of pancreatic cancers, but little is known about the core polypeptides of pancreatic cancer mucins. In this study, purified mucin from SW1990 pancreatic cancer xenografts was deglycosylated by treatment with hydrogen fluoride to give pancreatic cancer apomucin. Consistent with near-complete ...

Mucin deposit is a feature that is not commonly mentioned in textbooks when talking about rosacea. Nevertheless, it is one of the prominent findings of a severe variant of the phymatous type of rosacea known as the fibrous type. We retrospectively investigated 20 cases of early stages of rosacea and examined the mucin deposit in them, with histochemical stains (Alcian Blue and Periodic Acid-Sch...

Mucin production and secretion by specialized epithelial cells is a common mechanism used by mammals to protect the underlying mucosae against various injuries (pollutants, pathogens, pH). The expression of mucin genes is cell- and tissue-specific but is submitted to variations during cell differentiation, inflammatory process, and is altered during carcinogenesis. The molecular mechanisms resp...

Scott, C. E., Lubna H. Abdullah, and C. William Davis. Ca21 and protein kinase C activation of mucin granule exocytosis in permeabilized SPOC1 cells. Am. J. Physiol. 275 (Cell Physiol. 44): C285–C292, 1998.—Mucin secretion by airway goblet cells is under the control of apical P2Y2, phospholipase C-coupled purinergic receptors. In SPOC1 cells, the mobilization of intracellular Ca21 by ionomycin ...

BACKGROUND Cutaneous mucinoses are a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by an abnormal amount of mucin in the skin. However, the pathomechanism of an excessive mucin deposition in the skin is still unknown. Eczematous dermatitis is sub-classified histologically into acute, subacute, and chronic variants. The characteristic histopathologic findings for chronic eczema are variable. Ho...

Mucinous cystadenocarcinoma (MCA) in the breast is a rare neoplasm. There have been 13 cases of primary breast MCA reported. The MCA presents as a large, partially cystic mass in postmenopausal woman with a good prognosis. The microscopic findings resemble those of ovarian, pancreatic, or appendiceal MCA. The aspiration findings showed mucin-containing cell clusters in the background of mucin a...

Recently, we showed microscopically that bovine (BSM), porcine (PGM) and human (MG1) mucin coatings could suppress the adhesion of neutrophils to a polyethylene terephthalate-based model biomaterial (Thermanox). Here, using the release of reactive oxygen species (ROS) as a marker of material-induced neutrophil activation, the strong surface-passivating effects of these mucin coatings were corro...

Mucin glycoproteins play a key role in the regular function of the epithelium of the gastrointestinal tract, and in this study, the ontogenesis and development of mucin producing cells was examined in the broiler. Mucin-producing cells were observed in the small intestine from 3 d before hatch, and at this time contained only acidic mucin. After hatch and until Day 7 posthatch, the proximal, mi...