Acoustic Neuroma
|
0.400 |
Biomarker
|
disease |
BEFREE |
Protein extracts from VS or rat sciatic nerve (proximal or distal to a crush injury) were isolated into lipid raft and nonraft fractions and immunoblotted for erbB2, phosphorylated erbB2, and merlin (for sciatic nerve).
|
18199961 |
2008 |
Acoustic Neuroma
|
0.400 |
Biomarker
|
disease |
BEFREE |
We found that merlin appeared in 98% of the VS tissue samples, with a mean cellular positivity of 46.66 +/- 5.75%.
|
17989580 |
2008 |
Acoustic Neuroma
|
0.400 |
Biomarker
|
disease |
BEFREE |
Immunohistochemical studies were performed to detect the protein product of the NF2 gene, merlin, in the four irradiated VS. NF2 staining was not observed.
|
16436992 |
2006 |
Acoustic Neuroma
|
0.400 |
GeneticVariation
|
disease |
BEFREE |
Neurofibromatosis 2 is caused by inactivating mutations of the NF2 gene, and is characterized by the development of nervous system tumours (mainly bilateral vestibular schwannomas), ocular abnormalities, and skin tumours.
|
16857415 |
2006 |
Acoustic Neuroma
|
0.400 |
Biomarker
|
disease |
BEFREE |
In addition, the interactions of merlin, the protein product of the NF2 gene, and other cellular proteins are beginning to give us a better idea of NF2 function and the pathogenesis of vestibular schwannomas.
|
16436990 |
2006 |
Acoustic Neuroma
|
0.400 |
Biomarker
|
disease |
BEFREE |
Molecular genetic analysis detected a 1-base pair deletion at exon 10 of the neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) gene in the trigeminal schwannoma, but not in the acoustic schwannoma.
|
15639530 |
2005 |
Acoustic Neuroma
|
0.400 |
GeneticVariation
|
disease |
BEFREE |
Despite a strong association of schwannomin/merlin gene mutations with vestibular schwannoma formation, the regulatory mechanisms and biologic pathways involved are still largely unknown.
|
12646839 |
2003 |
Acoustic Neuroma
|
0.400 |
GeneticVariation
|
disease |
BEFREE |
Molecular genetic analysis of the NF2 gene in young patients with unilateral vestibular schwannomas.
|
12011146 |
2002 |
Acoustic Neuroma
|
0.400 |
GeneticVariation
|
disease |
BEFREE |
Although mutational inactivation and allelic loss in the NF2 gene appear to be causal events in the majority of vestibular schwannomas, involvement of another potentially important mechanism, transcriptional inactivation, has not been investigated.
|
11380622 |
2001 |
Acoustic Neuroma
|
0.400 |
GeneticVariation
|
disease |
BEFREE |
The purposes of this investigation are: 1. to determine what proportion of vestibular schwannomas from patients with spontaneous unilateral and familial bilateral schwannomas have mutations present within the NF2 gene; 2. to determine whether specific types of mutations are associated with a specific clinical manifestation of this disease; and 3. to further define the relationship between newly discovered mutations within the NF2 tumor-suppressor gene and possible clinical applications of this knowledge to advance diagnosis and treatment of patients with NF2 and spontaneous vestibular schwannomas.
|
9473065 |
1998 |
Acoustic Neuroma
|
0.400 |
GeneticVariation
|
disease |
BEFREE |
Blood samples from 125 unrelated families with classical type 2 neurofibromatosis (NF2) with bilateral vestibular schwannomas have been analysed for mutations in the NF2 gene.
|
9643284 |
1998 |
Acoustic Neuroma
|
0.400 |
GeneticVariation
|
disease |
BEFREE |
Polymerase chain reaction-single strand chain polymorphism was used to screen for germline NF-2 gene mutations in six families with unilateral vestibular schwannoma.
|
9674507 |
1998 |
Acoustic Neuroma
|
0.400 |
GeneticVariation
|
disease |
BEFREE |
Chromosome 22q carries the locus of a tumor suppressor gene, the neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) gene, which has been shown to be lost or mutated in some NF2-related tumors, sporadic meningiomas, and vestibular schwannomas, as well as a few other tumors.
|
9635681 |
1998 |
Acoustic Neuroma
|
0.400 |
Biomarker
|
disease |
BEFREE |
Immunohistochemical detection of schwannomin and neurofibromin in vestibular schwannomas, ependymomas and meningiomas.
|
9100669 |
1997 |
Acoustic Neuroma
|
0.400 |
GeneticVariation
|
disease |
BEFREE |
In addition, the authors and others have reported that somatic NF2 gene mutations occur frequently in nonfamilial vestibular schwannoma.
|
8622160 |
1996 |
Acoustic Neuroma
|
0.400 |
GeneticVariation
|
disease |
BEFREE |
The exon 4 deletion represents the second most frequently reported mutation of the NF2 gene in VSs.
|
8557252 |
1996 |
Acoustic Neuroma
|
0.400 |
GeneticVariation
|
disease |
BEFREE |
Because there have been only a few studies of the NF2 gene on central nervous system tumors other than vestibular schwannomas, we investigated the potential role of NF2 as a tumor suppressor gene in a group of sporadic meningiomas and astrocytomas.
|
8559307 |
1995 |
Acoustic Neuroma
|
0.400 |
GeneticVariation
|
disease |
BEFREE |
Analysis of the NF2 gene transcript in 53 unrelated patients with meningiomas and vestibular schwannomas revealed mutations in 32% of the sporadic meningiomas (n = 44), in 50% of the sporadic vestibular schwannomas (n = 4), in 100% of the tumors found in NF2 patients (n = 2), and in one of three tumors from multiple-meningioma patients.
|
7911002 |
1994 |
Acoustic Neuroma
|
0.400 |
GeneticVariation
|
disease |
BEFREE |
Somatic NF2 gene mutations were detected in 13 non-familial vestibular schwannomas and in one of the NF2 vestibular schwannomas.
|
8004107 |
1994 |
Acoustic Neuroma
|
0.400 |
GeneticVariation
|
disease |
BEFREE |
We performed a mutational analysis in 30 vestibular schwannomas and examined the effect of mutations on the NF2 protein.
|
7951231 |
1994 |