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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.
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].
The fact that anti-MCM2 more frequently stains metaplastic cells at the epithelial surface suggests that it is more likely than anti-Ki-67 to detect exfoliated proliferating epithelial cells in cytological specimens such as sputum.
Diffuse metaplastic lesions commonly precede cancers.
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.