A better defined medium for human prostate cancer cells.
A better defined medium for human prostate cancer cells.
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一种更明确的人类前列腺癌细胞培养基。
DOI:
10.1007/bf02634145
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发表时间:
1993
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Pretlow,TP
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作者:
Pretlow,TG;Ogrinc,GS;Amini,SB;Delmoro,CM;Molkentin,KF;Willson,JK;Pretlow,TP
Dear Editor: The lack of good models for human prostatic carcinoma (PCA) is a major limitation both to the development of therapy and for the investigation of the pathogenesis of this neoplastic disease. Many experts have made major commitments to the development of systems for the culture of PCA over the past two decades; however, fewer than a dozen PCA cell lines exist in the entire world (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 14). There is only one report (9) of transformation in vitro of human prostate epithelial cells, and this report deals exclusively with neonatal, ie, prepubertal, prostate cells. Prior to the report (13) that more than half of primary human PCAs grew slowly in athymic mice until the animals were killed 3 to 6 months after the subcutaneous injection of primary PCA in Matrigel, there was no method that would permit the propagation of most of these tumors in vivo or in vitro for periods in excess of 3 months. Chackal-Roy et al.(3) reasoned that human PCA often metastasizes to bone marrow cavities and wondered if growth factors pro-duced by marrow or by other kinds of cells might stimulate the growth of PCA cell lines. Singly and in combinations of up to three growth factors per culture, they tested the abilities of PC-3 and DU 145 PCA cell lines to respond, in the presence of 1% serum, to interleukin-1 (IL-1), IL-2, IL-3, IL-4, IL-6, granulocyte (G)-colony-stimulating factor (CSF), macrophage (M)-CSF, GM-CSF, epi-dermal growth factor (EGF), fibroblast growth factor (FGF), plate-let-derived growth factor (PDGF), transforming growth factor (TGF)-a, TGF-b, insulin, endotoxin, and bone marrow conditioned medium (BMCM). While low levels of stimulation were observed with several growth factors, the responses to these factors were small as compared with responses to medium conditioned by bone marrow cells from human, rat, or cow. We repeated the work of Chackal-Roy et al.(3) with slight modifications. We then examined the effects of media conditioned by neoplastic colonic epithelial cell lines (15) on the growth of these two PCA cell lines. Many conditioned media caused stimulation of these two cell lines comparable to the stimulation observed in BMCM. More importantly, we de-scribe, in the presence of 1% fetal calf serum (FCS), the vigorous stimulation of these two cell lines by medium with several defined supplements but without any conditioning by or exposure to other kinds of cells. DU 145 required no serum. The PC-3 (8) and DU 145 (14) cell lines were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (Rockville, MD). PC-3 cells were maintained in RPMI 1640 medium (GIBCO Laboratories, Grand Island, NY) supplemented with 7% heat-inactivated FCS (Hyclone Laboratories, Logan, UT) and 50, g/ml gentamycin (GIBCO Laboratories). DU 145 cells were grown in Eagle's minimum essential medium (EMEM)(GIBCO Laboratories) supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated FCS and 50 jig/ml gentamycin. VACO-330 cells, a line of human colonic epithelial cells derived from a tubular polyp (15) were grown in EMEM supplemented with 2% FCS, 50 Ctg/ml gentamycin, 2 mM L-glutamine (GIBCO Laboratories), 0.1 mM non-essential amino acids (GIBCO Laboratories), 10 ag/ml insulin (Sigma Chemical Co., St. Louis, MO), 2 ttg/ml transferrin (Sigma Chemical Co.), 1 tg/ml hydrocortisone (Sigma Chemical Co.), and5 X 10-M sodium selenite (DIFCO Laboratories, Detroit, MI). Medium with the additives listed in the last sentence, but without FCS, will be termed" MEM+". VACO-330 cells are grown with rat tail collagen used as a collagen support. Medium conditioned by human marrow cells was generously do-nated by Ms. M. Chackal-Roy and Dr. B. Zetter. Medium …