ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PC-3 HUMAN PROSTATIC TUMOR SUBLINES WHICH PREFERENTIALLY METASTASIZE TO SELECT ORGANS IN SCID MICE
ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PC-3 HUMAN PROSTATIC TUMOR SUBLINES WHICH PREFERENTIALLY METASTASIZE TO SELECT ORGANS IN SCID MICE
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1432-0436.1991.tb00250.x
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发表时间:
1991-11-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
STEARNS, ME
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作者:
WANG, M;STEARNS, ME
We have developed and partially characterized a mouse model system for studying human prostate tumor cell metastases in vivo. To develop this model we have selected highly invasive (3 x I.) and non-invasive (3 x N.I.) PC-3 human prostatic tumor sublines based on enhanced and diminished capacities to migrate across a reconstituted basement membrane barrier (Matrigel) in Boyden chamber chemotactic assays. When the 3 x I. cells were injected intravenously (i.v.) in the tail vein of severe combined immune deficient (scid) mice, the cells initially metastasized to a wide variety of tissues as demonstrated by using [I-125] IUdR labeled cells and histology. Four distinct sublines were eventually isolated which preferentially metastasized at almost-equal-to 80% efficiency to the lumbar vertebrae (PC-3 ML), the mandibular region of the right cheek (PC-3 MC), the rib cartilage (PC-3 MR), and the right front knee bone (PC-3 MK), respectively. Implantation experiments at different sites indicated that organ metastases may somehow be conferred on the tumor subclones by the host tissue.