Tyrosine Hydroxylase Indicates Cell Differentiation of Catecholamine Biosynthesis in Neuroendocrine Tumors

Overview

Journal J Endocrinol Invest

Publisher Springer

Specialty Endocrinology

Date 1994 Apr 1

PMID 7523477

Citations 10

Authors

K Iwase

A Nagasaka

I Nagatsu

K Kiuchi

T Nagatsu

H Funahashi

T Tsujimura

A Inagaki

A Nakai

T Kishikawa

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Abstract

The intracellular localization of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), which is the rate limiting enzyme in catecholamine (CA) biosynthesis, and its activity in various adrenal and other neuroendocrine tumors was studied. TH was strongly localized in adrenal medulla, pheochromocytoma, and paraganglioma, but was scatteredly expressed in neuroblastoma. TH was not detected in adrenocortical tumors, ganglioneuroma, and other neuroendocrine tumors. Neuron specific enolase (NSE) was found in all neuroendocrine tumors, but Grimelius staining showed only the secreting granules of the tumor cells. TH activity was significantly high in pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma as compared with that in normal adrenal gland, whereas TH activity was low in a neuroblastoma and was undetectable in other tumors. These findings indicate that TH correlates well with the biosynthetic function of CA in the tumor cell and, thus, both the immunostaining of TH and the measurement of its activity in adreno-medullary and related tumors may provide some information about the process of cell differentiation in these tumors.

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