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Adhesion and invasion of three human choriocarcinoma cell lines into human endometrium in a three-dimensional organ culture system.

Abstract
A novel in vitro model was developed to study attachment and invasion of choriocarcinoma cell spheroids using pre-cultured secretory phase human endometrium as a host tissue. During pre-culturing in shaker culture human endometrium had regenerated a complete epithelial covering and had shed cells damaged during explantation. Spheroids of three human choriocarcinoma cell lines (BeWo, Jeg-3, JAr) which displayed linear growth in culture and produced placental hormones were used in this study as models for trophoblast behaviour. Morphological differences were noted in the spheroids from the three choriocarcinoma cell lines; BeWo and Jeg-3 spheroids exposed flattened and more differentiated cells on their surfaces while superficial cells in JAr spheroids maintained their cytotrophoblast-like morphology. Spheroids from all three cell lines were proven to be invasive in a general invasion assay using embryonic chick heart fragments, with JAr spheroids being the most aggressive. When spheroids were confronted with pre-cultured re-epithelialized endometrial fragments, however, Jeg-3 spheroids showed the highest incidence of attachment (52%) and the greatest amount of invasion into the underlying stroma. BeWo spheroids also attached (37%) and penetrated the epithelium, but did not invade into the stroma. JAr spheroids showed a minor degree of attachment (12%) and little or no invasion into the stroma. These results show that the three choriocarcinoma cell lines, although all invasive in a general invasion assay, differ in adhesion to uterine epithelium and invasion into endometrial stroma. This model offers opportunities for studying mechanisms of trophoblast adhesion and invasion, using human endometrium as the natural host tissue.
AuthorsR Grümmer, H P Hohn, M M Mareel, H W Denker
JournalPlacenta (Placenta) Vol. 15 Issue 4 Pg. 411-29 (Jun 1994) ISSN: 0143-4004 [Print] Netherlands
PMID7937597 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Topics
  • Animals
  • Cell Adhesion
  • Chick Embryo
  • Choriocarcinoma (pathology)
  • Endometrium (pathology)
  • Epithelium (pathology)
  • Female
  • Heart (embryology)
  • Humans
  • Microscopy, Electron
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness
  • Organ Culture Techniques
  • Pregnancy
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured
  • Uterine Neoplasms (pathology)

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