Abstract

Objective To investigate expression and significance of decorin (DCN) in liver tissue and serum of liver transplant patients with chronic rejection (CR). Methods Immunohistochemistry ( SP method) was used to detect expression of DCN in liver tissue of 16 normal controls, 20 patients with cirrhosis, 46 liver translantion patients without CR and 8 patients with CR. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay method (ELISA method) was used to determined the content of DCN in serum of all research subjects. Results The expression of DCN was negative in normal hepatic tissues and with/without CR, cirrhosis tissues showed strong expression of DCN. The positive expression rate and the average optical density value of DCN in liver transplant tissues with CR had significant difference comparing with Cirrhosis tissues (25% vs 55% , 0. 1249 ±0.0039 vs 0. 2357 ±0. 0396, P 〈0.01 ,while no statistic siqnificance compared to normal liver tissues and those without CR. The level of DCN in serum was significantly higher in liver transplant patients with CR, with significant differenee comparing with normal people, liver cirrhosis and transplant liver patients without CR(54.0833 ± 6. 0325 ) μg/L vs ( 1. 0232 ± 0. 9105 ) μg/L, ( 12. 6202 ± 1. 5370) μg/L, ( 17. 7102 ±2.3562) μg/L, P 〈 0.01 ). The concentration of DCN in serum showed a positive correlation with the degree of CR. Conclusions DCN showed negative expression in liver tissue and increased significantly in serum of liver transplantation patients with CR. This suggests that DCN may be involved in occurrence and development of CR. At the same time the determination of DCN in serum maybe become an important indicator of the early diagnosis, development and prognosis of CR for liver transplant patients. Key words: Liver transplantation; Immunohistochemistry; Decorin; Chronic rejection ; Average optical density

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