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Trendell-Smith NJ, Agathanggelou A, Herbst H, et al. Absence of Epstein-Barr virus in testicular germ cell tumours: a study of 21 cases using in situ hybridisation. Clin Mol Pathol. 1995;48(2):M109-10doi: 10.1136/mp.48.2.m109.
Trendell-Smith, N. J., Agathanggelou, A., Herbst, H., Collins, C. M., Rooney, N., & Niedobitek, G. (1995). Absence of Epstein-Barr virus in testicular germ cell tumours: a study of 21 cases using in situ hybridisation. Clinical molecular pathology, 48(2), M109-10. https://doi.org/10.1136/mp.48.2.m109
Trendell-Smith, N J, et al. "Absence of Epstein-Barr virus in testicular germ cell tumours: a study of 21 cases using in situ hybridisation." Clinical molecular pathology vol. 48,2 (1995): M109-10. doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/mp.48.2.m109
Trendell-Smith NJ, Agathanggelou A, Herbst H, Collins CM, Rooney N, Niedobitek G. Absence of Epstein-Barr virus in testicular germ cell tumours: a study of 21 cases using in situ hybridisation. Clin Mol Pathol. 1995 Apr;48(2):M109-10. doi: 10.1136/mp.48.2.m109. PMID: 16695981; PMCID: PMC407935.
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Clin Mol Pathol. 1995 Apr;48(2):M109-10. doi: 10.1136/mp.48.2.m109.

Absence of Epstein-Barr virus in testicular germ cell tumours: a study of 21 cases using in situ hybridisation.

Clinical molecular pathology

N J Trendell-Smith, A Agathanggelou, H Herbst, C M Collins, N Rooney, G Niedobitek

Affiliations

  1. Department of Histopathology, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Marlborough Street, Bristol BS2 8HW.

PMID: 16695981 PMCID: PMC407935 DOI: 10.1136/mp.48.2.m109

Abstract

Aim-To establish whether testicular germ cell tumours contain Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and if so to provide further evidence for the hypothesis that EBV plays a direct role in the pathogenesis of testicular germ cell tumours.Method-Paraffin wax embedded tissue blocks from 21 germ cell tumours including 12 teratomas and nine classic seminomas were examined by in situ hybridisation for the expression of the small EBV encoded nuclear RNA transcripts (EBER-1 and -2) using isotopic and nonisotopic probes.Results-There was no EBER specific signal detectable in any of the testicular germ cell tumours examined by in situ hybridisation whilst a strong signal was observed in appropriate control sections.Conclusion-The absence of demonstrable EBER transcripts in testicular germ cell tumours make a direct role for EBV in the pathogenesis of these tumours unlikely. Other explanations for the epidemiological and serological evidence linking EBV with germ cell tumours need to be explored.

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