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Establishment and characterization of a novel cell line derived from thymoma with myasthenia gravis patients.

AbstractBACKGROUND:
Thymoma is a cancer with rare incidence, but it is a major malignancy in adult anterior mediastinum, occurring in about 40% of patients with myasthenia gravis. Because of the lack of thymic epithelial tumor cell lines, thymoma has lagged far behind other tumors in cytological studies. It is, therefore, quite necessary to establish a new thymic epithelial tumor cell line from Chinese patients to study the pathogenic mechanism and therapeutic methods.
METHODS:
Twenty-three samples of tumor tissues were collected from thymoma and thymic carcinoma patients for primary culture by tissue explant, suspension cell culture method, and collagenase digestion. We detected the biological characteristics and origin of the cell line after the establishment of a novel thymoma cell line.
RESULTS:
A novel cell line, designed as Thy0517, was established from thymoma type AB with myasthenia gravis patients by tissue explant. As an immortalized cell line, it always has a stable growth cycle, and there is no change in characteristics and morphology after culturing for 18 months and passing 160 generations in vitro. The experimental data demonstrate that the cell line exhibits the growth characteristics of tumor cells, the doubling time of 37 hours, with tumorigenicity in vitro and chromosome abnormality. Immunocytochemistry indicated that the cell line positive expression of CK7, CK8/18, CK19, CK-pan, CD24, BCL-2, P63, Vimentin, epithelial membrane antigen and epidermal growth factor receptor, lymphocyte related antigen CD99, and TdT were negatively expressed.
CONCLUSIONS:
The newly established thymic epithelial tumor cell line from Chinese patients provides a model in the study of thymoma and molecularly targeted therapies.
AuthorsGuojin Wang, Yuanguo Wang, Peng Zhang, Yuan Chen, Yimei Liu, Feng Guo, Hui Zhang
JournalThoracic cancer (Thorac Cancer) Vol. 6 Issue 2 Pg. 194-201 (Mar 2015) ISSN: 1759-7706 [Print] Singapore
PMID26273358 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

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