Cell proliferation rate and nuclear morphometry in Roberts syndrome

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Cell proliferation rate and nuclear morphometry in Roberts syndrome (EN)

Konstantinidou, AE (EN)
Davaris, P (EN)
Pavlopoulos, PM (EN)
Agapitos, E (EN)

journalArticle (EN)

2014-03-01T01:47:33Z
1998 (EN)


Roberts syndrome (RS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized primarily by symmetric reduction anomalies of all limbs, growth retardation and craniofacial abnormalities. Most RS patients are reported to present a typical abnormality of their constitutive heterochromatin, accompanied by abnormal cytological growth characteristics. We present an extremely severe case of an RS fetus, karyotypically documented, with a clinical presentation including growth deficiency, tetraphocomelia, frontal meningocele, craniofacial abnormalities and penile enlargement with hypospadias. Nuclear morphometrical analysis in tissues of various organs revealed a reduced nuclear size in RS as compared to normal controls, and statistically significant differences in morphometric parameters related to the nuclear shape. Immunohistochemical study of the same organs showed a reduced expression of proliferating cell nuclear antigen in the presented case, thus indicating a decreased cell proliferation rate in RS. Our results reconfirm previously reported findings in cultured fibroblasts of RS cases, thereby reinforcing on a histologic level, the hypothesis that reduced cell proliferation may be involved in the growth retardation and the reduction abnormalities observed in RS. (EN)

Genetics & Heredity (EN)

proliferating cell nuclear antigen (EN)
Roberts syndrome (EN)
ABNORMALITIES (EN)
meningocele (EN)
SC-PHOCOMELIA SYNDROME (EN)
nuclear morphometry (EN)
tetraphocomelia (EN)
growth retardation (EN)
SC phocomelia (EN)
premature centromere separation (EN)

CLINICAL GENETICS (EN)

Αγγλική γλώσσα

MUNKSGAARD INT PUBL LTD (EN)




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