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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1977-6-22
pubmed:abstractText
Two rats with chemically induced transplantable adenocarcinomas of the colon were given pulses of [3H]thymidine, and autoradiography with electron microscopes was used to compare the degrees of differentiation of the stem cells of the tumor and colon. The best differentiated portions of the tumor had acini composed of vacuolated, mucous, and argentaffin cells in various stages of differentiation. Vacuolated and mucous cells incorporated [3H]thymidine and corresponded in degree of differentiation to that of their labeled normal counterparts in the normal colon. An exceedingly undifferentiated labeled cell, hitherto undescribed, was identified in the tumor and crypts of the colon; this may be an undifferentiated colon stem cell that differentiates into vacuolated and mucous stem cells and/or into argentaffin cells. Normal stem cells of the breast and malignant stem cells of spontaneous adenocarcinomas of the breast of C3H mice had comparable degrees of differentiation. Since normal stem cells in these tissues were as undifferentiated as the least differentiated stem cells of the tumors, there is now no need to postulate dedifferentiation as a mechanism to explain the undifferentiated appearance of tumors.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0027-8874
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
58
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1329-45
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:857028-Adenocarcinoma, pubmed-meshheading:857028-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:857028-Cell Differentiation, pubmed-meshheading:857028-Colon, pubmed-meshheading:857028-Colonic Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:857028-Epithelial Cells, pubmed-meshheading:857028-Epithelium, pubmed-meshheading:857028-Female, pubmed-meshheading:857028-Mammary Glands, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:857028-Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental, pubmed-meshheading:857028-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:857028-Mice, Inbred C3H, pubmed-meshheading:857028-Neoplasm Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:857028-Neoplasms, Experimental, pubmed-meshheading:857028-Pregnancy, pubmed-meshheading:857028-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:857028-Rats, Inbred F344, pubmed-meshheading:857028-Thymidine, pubmed-meshheading:857028-Transplantation, Isogeneic
pubmed:year
1977
pubmed:articleTitle
Ultrastructural comparison of differentiation of stem cells of murine adenocarcinomas of colon and breast with their normal counterparts.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.