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Relationship between cellular adhesiveness and metastatic activity in polyomavirus-transformed FR3T3 rat cell lines.

Abstract
A series of polyomavirus-transformed rat cells with varying tumorigenic potential were tested for biophysical parameters possibly related to metastatic properties: adhesive capacity and strength of adhesion to different substrates (laminin, fibronectin and albumin), cell deformability and spreading. Two groups of cell lines were defined according to their higher or lower adhesive capacity. Adhesivity did not appear to be related to cell deformability and spreading. A weak correlation was suggested between low adhesivity and high metastatic potential. A selection method was devised to separate cell samples into 3 subpopulations with different adhesive strength. Two cell lines, originally different, were chosen for this study: Py-tsa A25 cells were less adherent and highly metastatic, and Py-WTA2 cells were more adherent and less metastatic. After s.c. inoculation into syngeneic Fisher rats, the 3 selected subpopulations of the 2 cell lines induced pulmonary nodules to varying degrees, but only the less adherent ones were able to induce visceral metastasis located in stomach and intestine. In this case, animal survival time was 30% lower than for the highly adherent selected cells. After 10 culture passages, the same subpopulations were able to metastasize only in the lungs. However, when the selection procedure was repeated, the less adherent cells were again able to yield visceral nodules. Tumorigenicity remained unchanged in all cases. Study of cell dissemination and arrest in vivo showed a rapid targeting of labelled tumor cells toward lungs and stomach 5 hr after intradermal injection, where they remained up to 72 hr. More adherent cells displayed delayed localization after injection (24 hr) and radioactivity decreased more rapidly.
AuthorsJ Leung-Tack, C Capo, O De Lapeyrière, A M Benoliel, D Arnaud, P Bongrand
JournalInternational journal of cancer (Int J Cancer) Vol. 42 Issue 6 Pg. 946-51 (Dec 15 1988) ISSN: 0020-7136 [Print] United States
PMID2847989 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Topics
  • Animals
  • Cell Adhesion
  • Cell Line, Transformed
  • Cell Transformation, Viral
  • Female
  • Male
  • Neoplasm Metastasis
  • Neoplasm Transplantation
  • Neoplasms, Experimental (pathology)
  • Polyomavirus
  • Rats
  • Rats, Inbred F344

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