Open AccessQuantitative evaluation of serum fucose in oral squamous cell carcinoma patients
Author(s) -
Rajkumar Parwani,
Simran Parwani
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.82928
Subject(s) - fucose , biomarker , medicine , monosaccharide , basal cell , glycoprotein , oncology , gastroenterology , chemistry , biochemistry
Cancer, a disorder of cellular behavior is characterized by the alteration of serum glycoproteins, which are composed of different monosaccharides. One of the monosaccharides is l-fucose, a methyl pentose, which is the terminal sugar in most of the plasma glycoproteins. Elevated levels of protein-bound fucose have been reported in various disease states as well as in malignancies.