Expression and clinical significance of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors in endometriosis
Objective To analyze the expression levels of the three different subtypes of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors(PPARs),including PPAR-α,PPAR-β and PPAR-γ,in the ectopic lesion tis-sues of the patients with endometriosis(EMs)in order to provide new methods for this disease diagnosis.Methods The ectopic endometrial tissue samples from 30 patients with EMs treated by laparoscopic surgery in this hospital from April to December 2021 were selected as the experimental group,and the ovarian lesion tissue samples from 30 patients with mature cystic teratoma of the ovary(MCTO)during the same period treated by laparoscopic surgery were selected as the control group.The expression levels of PPAR-α,PPAR-βand PPAR-γ in lesion tissues were detected by using immunohistochemistry,and their expression differences between the experimental group and control group were analyzed.The receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curve was utilized to evaluate the diagnostic value of the ratios of PPAR-α/PPAR-β,PPAR-α/PPAR-γ,and PPAR-β/PPAR-γ for EMs.Results The expression levels of PPAR-α,PPAR-β and PPAR-γ in the lesion tis-sues of the experimental group were significantly higher than those of the control group(P<0.05).In the pa-tients with EMs,PPAR-α was predominantly expressed(P<0.05),whereas in the patients with MCTO,PPAR-γ was predominantly expressed(P<0.05).In the ROC curve of PPAR-α/PPAR-β ratio for diagnosing EMs,when the cutoff value was 1.251,the area under the curve(AUC)was 0.65(95%CI:0.51-0.80),the sensitivity was 90.00%,and the specificity was 50.00%.In the ROC curve of PPAR-α/PPAR-γ ratio for diag-nosing EMs,when the cutoff value was 0.817,AUC was 0.88(95%CI:0.78-0.99),the sensitivity was 96.67%and the specificity was 80.00%.In the curve of the PPAR-β/PPAR-γ ratio for diagnosing EMs,when the cutoff value was 0.755,AUC was 0.91(95%CI:0.82-1.00),the sensitivity was 100.00%,and the speci-ficity was 86.67%.Conclusion The expression of PPAR-α in the ectopic lesion tissues of the patients with EMs is significantly higher than that of PPAR-β and PPAR-γ,while in lesion tissues of the patients with MC-TO,the PPAR-γ expression is predominant.The PPAR-β/PPAR-γ ratio may become a potential biomarker for diagnosing EMs.
endometriosisperoxisome proliferator-activated receptorsimmunohistochemistryclinical featuresdiagnostic value