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    ISSN: 0942-0940
    Keywords: Glioma ; metastatic brain tumour ; Ki-67 ; nucleolar organizer regions
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Sixteen cases of malignant brain tumours comprising 6 anaplastic astrocytomas, 3 glioblastoma multiforme, 1 medulloblastoma and 6 metastatic brain tumours were investigated independently by a silver colloid method for nucleolar organizer regions (NORs) and an immunohistochemistry using a monoclonal antibody against a nuclear antigen, Ki-67, in proliferating cells. The correlation between the mean number of NORs and the percentage of Ki-67 labelled cells (Ki-67 labelling index) was examined. In addition, four normal brain tissue samples without neoplastic cells were stained for NOR. The mean number of NORs in these malignant brain tumours was significantly greater than that in normal astrocytes (p〈0.001). Moreover, both the mean number of NORs and the Ki-67 labelling index in metastatic brain tumours were significantly greater than those in high-grade gliomas (p〈0.001). The Ki-67 labelling index and the mean number of NORs in malignant brain tumours including metastatic brain tumours were found to be linearly related (r=0.86). These results suggest that the proliferative potential of malignant brain tumours could be evaluated by NOR score as well as Ki-67 labelling index and that such indices provide clear discrimination between high-grade gliomas and metastatic brain tumours.
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