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Malignant tissues generally showed weak to moderate cytoplasmic positivity. However lymphomas, gliomas, ovarian and cervical cancers were mainly weakly stained or negative.
Most malignant tissues displayed moderate cytoplasmic positivity. Breast carcinomas were negative in most cases while a majority of skin cancers and malignant gliomas were weakly stained.
GENE INFORMATION
Gene name
CIDEC (HGNC Symbol)
Synonyms
CIDE-3, FLJ20871, Fsp27
Description
Cell death-inducing DFFA-like effector c (HGNC Symbol)
Entrez gene summary
This gene encodes a member of the cell death-inducing DNA fragmentation factor-like effector family. Members of this family play important roles in apoptosis. The encoded protein promotes lipid droplet formation in adipocytes and may mediate adipocyte apoptosis. This gene is regulated by insulin and its expression is positively correlated with insulin sensitivity. Mutations in this gene may contribute to insulin resistant diabetes. A pseudogene of this gene is located on the short arm of chromosome 3. Alternatively spliced transcript variants that encode different isoforms have been observed for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2010]