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- Title
Comparison of primer sets for T-cell clonality testing in canine intestinal lymphoma.
- Authors
Takanosu, Masamine; Kagawa, Yumiko
- Abstract
Clonality testing based on polymerase chain reaction is an important tool for diagnosis of lymphoproliferative diseases. Many primers have been designed and used for canine clonality testing. Canine intestinal lymphoma is usually diagnosed pathologically by examination of excised intestinal or endoscopic biopsy tissues, and clonality testing is sometimes used to support the pathological diagnosis if this examination is inconclusive. In the present study, the sensitivity of each previously published primer set for clonality testing was examined by using formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded sections from 39 cases pathologically diagnosed as canine intestinal lymphoma (large-cell type). All 39 cases were immunohistochemically positive for cluster of differentiation (CD)3. Thirty-two out of the 39 cases showed clonality in the T-cell receptor gamma (TRG) with at least 1 of the tested primers. The primer set with the highest sensitivity detected all 32 cases with TRG clonality, with a sensitivity of 82.1%. These results provide useful evidence for the selection of primer sets for clonality testing of canine intestinal lymphoma.
- Subjects
LYMPHOMAS in dogs; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE disorders; DIAGNOSTIC use of polymerase chain reaction; INTESTINAL cancer; T-cell receptor genes; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, 2015, Vol 27, Issue 5, p645
- ISSN
1040-6387
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1040638715600197