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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-5-3
pubmed:abstractText
Recent advances in culture techniques have enabled routine establishment and propagation of epithelial cells derived from normal and malignant tissues of the human prostate. Comparative studies of the responses of normal and cancer-derived cell populations to various growth and differentiation factors in vitro were undertaken to examine the possibility that cancer cells might respond differentially. Clonal growth assays in serum-free medium demonstrated that optimal proliferation of normal as well as cancer cell strains was generally dependent on the presence of cholera toxin, epidermal growth factor, pituitary extract, hydrocortisone, insulin, and high levels of calcium in the culture medium, and on the use of collagen-coated dishes. Only one cancer strain responded aberrantly to epidermal growth factor and hydrocortisone. Putative differentiation factors (transforming growth factor-beta and vitamin A) inhibited the growth of all normal and cancer strains. The origin of a cancer-derived cell strain that responded similarly to normal strains was verified by positive labeling with a prostate cancer-specific antibody, validating the conclusion from these studies that normal and cancer prostatic epithelial cells are not distinguishable on the basis of responses to the tested factors.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0897-7194
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
1
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
237-50
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:2698220-Antibodies, Neoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:2698220-Calcium, pubmed-meshheading:2698220-Cell Differentiation, pubmed-meshheading:2698220-Cell Division, pubmed-meshheading:2698220-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:2698220-Cholera Toxin, pubmed-meshheading:2698220-Epidermal Growth Factor, pubmed-meshheading:2698220-Epithelial Cells, pubmed-meshheading:2698220-Epithelium, pubmed-meshheading:2698220-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:2698220-Hydrocortisone, pubmed-meshheading:2698220-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:2698220-Insulin, pubmed-meshheading:2698220-Male, pubmed-meshheading:2698220-Prostate, pubmed-meshheading:2698220-Prostatic Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:2698220-Transforming Growth Factors, pubmed-meshheading:2698220-Tretinoin, pubmed-meshheading:2698220-Tumor Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:2698220-Tumor Markers, Biological
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
In vitro studies of human prostatic epithelial cells: attempts to identify distinguishing features of malignant cells.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Urology, Stanford Medical Center, California 94305.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't