Weisheng Wang

Publications (2)7.76 Total impact

• Article: Establishment of cell lines from a primary hepatocellular carcinoma and its metastatis.

  Liang Hu, Jian-Ming Wen, Jonathan S T Sham, Weisheng Wang, Dan Xie, Wai Mui Tjia, Jie-Fu Huang, Meng Zhang, Wei-Fen Zeng, Xin-Yuan Guan
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  ABSTRACT: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common malignancies in the world with a very poor prognosis that has been associated with tumor metastasis. The molecular mechanism of HCC metastasis is still unclear. In this study, we established cell lines from a primary tumor (H2-P) and its metastasis (H2-M). G-banding karyotyping, comparative genomic hybridization, and fluorescence in situ hybridization were applied to study these two cell lines and the results demonstrated that they are of the same origin. These cell lines provide a very useful tool to identify genetic alterations associated with HCC metastasis.
  Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics 02/2004; 148(1):80-4. · 1.39 Impact Factor
• Article: Association of Vimentin overexpression and hepatocellular carcinoma metastasis.

  Liang Hu, Sze Hang Lau, Chi-Hung Tzang, Jian-Ming Wen, Weisheng Wang, Dan Xie, Minghui Huang, Yi Wang, Meng-Chao Wu, Jie-Fu Huang, Wei-Fen Zeng, Jonathan S T Sham, Mengsu Yang, Xin-Yuan Guan
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  ABSTRACT: The poor prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has been associated with recurrence and metastasis. Recently, we established a pair of HCC cell lines from a primary (H2-P) and its matched metastatic (H2-M) HCC tumors. A high density of cDNA microarray with 9184 human cDNA was used to identify the differentially expressed genes between H2-P and H2-M. Comparing with H2-P, eight upregulated and six downregulated genes were detected in H2-M. One interesting finding is the overexpression of Vimentin (VIM), a well-defined intermediate filament, which has been linked to a more aggressive status in various tumors. The correlation of overexpression of VIM and HCC metastasis was studied by immunohistochemistry using a tissue microarray with 200 primary HCCs and 60 pairs of primary and matched metastatic HCC samples. Tissue microarray demonstrated that the overexpression of VIM was significantly associated with HCC metastasis (P<0.01). This finding strongly suggests that the overexpression of VIM may play an important role in the metastasis of HCC.
  Oncogene 01/2004; 23(1):298-302. · 6.37 Impact Factor