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17151927

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-8-16
pubmed:abstractText
The cellular and humoral mechanisms accounting for tumour osteolysis in metastatic breast cancer are uncertain. Osteoclasts, the specialised multinucleated cells responsible for tumour osteolysis, are derived from monocyte/macrophage precursors. Breast cancer-derived tumour-associated macrophages (TAMs) are capable of osteoclast differentiation but the cellular and humoral mechanisms controlling this activity are uncertain. In this study, TAMs were isolated from primary breast cancers and cultured in the presence and absence of cytokines/growth factors influencing osteoclastogenesis. Extensive TAM-osteoclast differentiation occurred only in the presence of RANKL and M-CSF; this process was inhibited by OPG and RANK:Fc, decoy receptors for RANKL. Breast cancer-derived fibroblasts and human bone stromal cells expressed mRNA for RANKL, OPG and TRAIL, and co-culture of these fibroblasts with human monocytes stimulated osteoclast formation by a RANKL-dependent mechanism. Osteoclast formation and lacunar resorption also occurred by a RANKL-independent mechanism when the conditioned medium from breast cancer cells, MDA-MB-231 and MCF-7, was added (with M-CSF) to monocyte cultures. Our findings indicate that TAMs in breast cancer are capable of osteoclast differentiation and that breast cancer-derived fibroblasts and breast cancer cells contribute to this process by producing soluble factors that influence osteoclast formation by RANKL-dependent and RANKL-independent mechanisms respectively.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0167-6806
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
105
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
7-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
RANKL-dependent and RANKL-independent mechanisms of macrophage-osteoclast differentiation in breast cancer.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pathology, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Oxford, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, OX3 7LD, UK. ick.athanasou@noc.anglox.nhs.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't