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The squamous cells in bronchial squamous dysplasia must have originated from a metaplastic focus for directly from non-squamous bronchial cells that differentiated directly to a dysplastic squamous phenotype.
In premalignant lesions, evaluation of the staining by the two antibodies (Table 1) revealed significantly ( p < 0.001) more frequent staining of nuclei within metaplastic lesions by antibodies against MCM2 than by antibodies against Ki-67.
It has also been documented that prostate epithelial cells exhibited squamous metaplastic phenotype during vitamin A deficiency [ 7 ] , and prostate cell carcinogenesis could be prevented by retinoic acid (RA) and its analogs in vitro [ 8 9 10 ] . These findings suggest that retinoid-dependent cellular events were involved in tumorigenic transformation of prostate epithelial cells.
Diffuse metaplastic lesions commonly precede cancers.
Thus, metaplastic lesions are frequently associated with chronic inflammation as exemplified by the presence of such lesions in 27% of current smokers but only 7% of former smokers [ 7].