【Abstract】 To explore the mechanisms of EBV associated gastric carcinoma, TNF α expression was determined by Northern blot in EBV infected gastric carcinoma cell line NU GC 3 and the significant decrease was found (P<0.01). Furthermore, the determinations were done in the cells transfected by 4 kinds of EBV latency I genes which were expressed in EBV latently infected gastric epithelial cells. It was found that the downregulations were associated with EBV determined nuclear antigen l (EBNA1) gene and EBV encoded small RNAs (EBERs) gene (p<0.01 and p<0.05), but not with BamH I A rightward frame 0 (BARF0) gene and latent membrane protein 2A (LMP2A) gene. EBNA1 and EBERs are known to be correlated with the viral tumorigenicity, while BARF0 and LMP2A are not. TNF α downregulation caused by all the factors related to EBV tumorigenicity suggests that it may be an important mediate step in the signal transduction pathway of gastric epithelial cell canceration.更多还原