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Thyroid cancers, cases of colorectal and hepatocellular carcinomas showed strong cytoplasmic staining. Cancer cells in general showed weak to moderate cytoplasmic positivity. Testicular cancers were generally negative.
A majority of the cancer cells were negative. Hepatocellular carcinomas and thyroid cancers displayed moderate to strong cytoplasmic staining while most cases of colorectal pancreatic and urothelial cancers showed moderate immunoreactivity.
This gene encodes a receptor protein that interacts with a variety of psychotomimetic drugs, including cocaine and amphetamines. The receptor is believed to play an important role in the cellular functions of various tissues associated with the endocrine, immune, and nervous systems. As indicated by its previous name, opioid receptor sigma 1 (OPRS1), the product of this gene was erroneously thought to function as an opioid receptor; it is now thought to be a non-opioid receptor. Mutations in this gene has been associated with juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 16. Alternative splicing of this gene results in transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2013]