Open AccessQuantitative evaluation and correlation of serum glycoconjugates: Protein bound hexoses, sialic acid and fucose in leukoplakia, oral sub mucous fibrosis and oral cancer
Author(s) -
K Subhash Chandra Bose,
Prerna Vyas Gokhale,
Sunil Kumar Dwivedi,
Manika Singh
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of natural science, biology and medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.236
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 2229-7707
pISSN - 0976-9668
DOI - 10.4103/0976-9668.107275
Subject(s) - glycoconjugate , fucose , leukoplakia , oral submucous fibrosis , medicine , cancer , chewing tobacco , sialic acid , oral leukoplakia , gastroenterology , pathology , biology , biochemistry , glycoprotein
Cancer is one of the most common causes of mortality and morbidity today, with more than 10 million new cases and more than 6 million deaths each year worldwide. Globally Oral Cancer is the sixth most common cause of cancer related death. India accounts for 86% of the world's oral cancer cases. Often it proceeds by pre cancerous conditions and lesions. In search for biological markers with diagnostic value, we investigated serum glycoconjugates like protein bound hexoses, fucose and sialic acid in these diseases.