Novel insights into immunohistochemical analysis for diagnosing serous neoplasm of the pancreas: aquaporin 1, stereocilin, and transmembrane protein 255B

Serous (cystic) neoplasm (SCN) of the pancreas is usually benign cystic neoplasm and has unique biological characteristics that are different from those found in the normal pancreatic tissue or pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) tissue. In order to investigate molecular mechanisms involved in the unique biological phenotypes of, we compared gene expression profiles of SCN tissues with those of normal pancreatic tissues or those of PDAC tissues. Gene expression profiles of five serous cystic neoplasm of the pancreas tissues were measured using Agilent SurePrint G3 Human GE v3 8x60K Microarray.