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Original paper

Serum soluble Toll-like receptor 4 and the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in hepatitis C virus patients

Maha Elkammah
1
,
Ahmed Gowily
2
,
Tarek Okda
1
,
Maha Houssen
1

  1. Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Damanhour University, Damanhour, Egypt
  2. Department of Clinical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
Contemp Oncol (Pozn) 2020; 24 (4): 216–220
Online publish date: 2021/01/04
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Introduction
Soluble Toll-like receptor 4 (sTLR4) is a negative regulator of TLR4 signalling that has been reported in different diseases. In this study, we aimed to assess the serum levels of sTLR4 in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and to investigate the correlation of sTLR4 with clinicopathological and biochemical parameters among HCV-related HCC patients and hepatitis C without HCC patients.

Material and methods
Fifty patients with HCV-related HCC, 50 patients with hepatitis C without HCC and 50 healthy control volunteers were enrolled. Clinicopathological and biochemical parameters were examined in all patients. Serum levels of sTLR4 were measured using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.

Results
A significant increase in serum sTLR4 was detected in patients with HCV-related HCC (4436.1 ±7089.8) (pg/ml) ± compared to the level in patients with hepatitis C without HCC (1561.4 ±532.0) (pg/ml) (p = 0.002) and the level in the control group (1170.38 ±159.42) (pg/ml) (p < 0.001). Serum sTLR4 was positively correlated with serum AST activity, serum direct bilirubin levels, serum alpha fetoprotein levels, tumour stages of HCC according to the Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer staging system (BCLC), and the severity of liver cirrhosis according to the Child-Pugh classification among the patients with HCV-related HCC. The combination of serum alpha fetoprotein and serum sTLR4 increased the sensitivity of HCC detection to 76% and the specificity to 94%.

Conclusions
Serum sTLR4 may be a marker for HCC susceptibility among HCV-infected patients.

keywords:

AFP, HCV, HCC, sTLR4

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