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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-10-16
pubmed:abstractText
It has proved difficult to develop suitable models to study radiation-induced carcinogenesis by using human epithelial cells. However, immortalised human epithelial cell lines have proved useful. Unirradiated cells from the human keratinocyte cell line (HPV-G) and the human embryonic lung cell line (L132) were found to be tumourigenic in T-cell-deficient mice; thus, they are not suitable for transformation studies. Human urothelial cell lines (SV-HUC-1, NT11, BC16) and the human thyroid epithelial cell line (HTori-3) were nontumourigenic. The urothelial cell lines were refractory to radiation-induced carcinogenesis, and only one small tumour was observed in 57 mice that received irradiated cells. Whereas tumours were not produced following irradiation of these urothelial cells, changes in anchorage-independent growth were observed after a single dose of 8 Gy gamma-irradiation but not after 2 or 4 Gy. Irradiation of the human thyroid epithelial cell line (HTori-3) in vitro resulted in tumour formation. Passaging of the cells in vitro before injection did not seem to be critical. Some of the cell lines derived from the primary thyroid tumours exhibited p53 mutations in exons 5, 6, 7, and 8, as detected by single-stranded conformational polymorphism (SSCP) analysis. Thus, the human thyroid epithelial cell line (HTori-3) looks promising as a model for investigating the molecular events in radiation-induced carcinogenesis.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1065-7541
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
5
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
139-43
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Cell Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation, pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Epithelial Cells, pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Epithelium, pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Exons, pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Gamma Rays, pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Genes, p53, pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Keratinocytes, pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Lung, pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Mice, Nude, pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced, pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational, pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Radiation Dosage, pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Thyroid Gland, pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Transformation, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:9303072-Urothelium
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Radiation-induced carcinogenesis: studies using human epithelial cell lines.
pubmed:affiliation
School of Biological and Medical Sciences, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom. acrl@st-andrews.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't