Tenascin-C在瘢痕疙瘩和增生性瘢痕中的基因表达研究

目的 探讨Tenascin-C基因在瘢痕疙瘩和增生性瘢痕中的表达。方法 取正常成人皮肤组织RNA，构建正义、反义Tenascin-C(Tn-C)mRNA探针，运用原位杂交技术，观测10例瘢痕疙瘩、10例增生性瘢痕和5例正常成人皮肤组织中Tn-C mRNA的表达。结果 Tn-C mRNA在正常皮肤表皮中无表达，真皮中表达稀少，局限于乳头真皮层的成纤维细胞和皮肤附属器；10例瘢痕疙瘩表皮均有表达，真皮分布较广，如成纤维细胞、血管内皮和皮肤附属器；Tn-C mRNA在3例增生性瘢痕表皮表达，7例无表达，真皮中表达与瘢痕疙瘩相同但较弱，比正常皮肤增多，但差异无显著性。结论 Tenascin-C mRNA在瘢痕疙瘩表皮和真皮中有高表达。

The expression of Tenascin-C mRNA in keloids and hypertrophic scars

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the expression of Tenascin-C mRNA in keloids and hypertrophic Total RNA was isolated from normal adult skin. A cDAN fragment (base 5941-6481bp) of the scars. METHODS: full-length human Tenascin-C cDNA was synthesized by polymerase chain reaction and subcloned in pGEM-T-easy. Dioxigen-labeled anti-sense and sense probes were synthesized by using a Sp6/T7 RNA synthesis kit in the present of Dig-UTP in vitro. The samples were taken from keloids in 10, hypertrophic scars in 10 and normal adult skin in 5. The hybridization was performed with 4% paraformaldehyde-fixed and wax-embedded sections to detect the Tenascin-C mRNA. RESULTS: The Tenascin-C mRNA was negative in the normal adult epidermis and weakly located in the fibroblasts of the papiliary dermis and the epidermal adnexa. In all of the 10 keloid specimens, the Tenascin-C mRNA was positive throughout the epidermis and widely distributed in the dermis included in the fibroblasts, endothelial cells and epidermal adnexa. In the specimens of the 3 hypertrophic scars,the Tenascin-C mRNA was also positive in the epidermis, but in the other 7 cases, it became negative. In the dermis of the hypertrophic scar,the Tenascin-C mRNA was weaker than that in the keloid, but stronger than that in the normal skin. CONCLUSIONS: The expression of Tenascin-C mRNA is markedly enhanced in the keloids.