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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-7-19
pubmed:abstractText
Using B16 F10 murine melanoma cells and sublines generated from the JB/MS melanoma which exhibit various degrees of melanogenesis, the relationships among differentiation, tumorigenicity, and metastatic potential were examined. The effect of melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH), which specifically stimulates differentiation of melanocytes, was also studied. All melanoma lines tested were capable of growing as experimental pulmonary metastases but, surprisingly, the undifferentiated and amelanotic JB/MS-w cells failed to grow as primary subcutaneous tumors. JB/MS-w cells, which had few surface MSH receptors, did not respond to MSH with an increase in melanin production, unlike the other cell lines. Although in vitro treatment with MSH did not change the rates of growth of primary tumors by these cell lines, such treatment decreased the number of pulmonary metastases from B16 F10, JB/MS cells, JB/MS-b1 cells and JB/MS-w cells. Conversely, MSH treatment significantly increased the rates of pulmonary metastases from JB/MS-p cells. The expression of surface melanoma antigens, urokinase-type plasminogen activity and susceptibility to natural killer cells were examined. MSH did not significantly alter surface melanoma antigen expression, but increased the natural killer cell susceptibility of B16 F10, JB/MS and JB/MS-b1 cells, cells which possess abundant surface MSH receptors. There was an inverse correlation between differentiation (pigmentation) and proliferation in vitro, and the more pigmented melanoma cells (B16 F10, JB/MS and JB/MS-b1) expressed relatively lower levels of class-I MHC, relatively higher levels of class-II MHC and the highest metastatic capacity. These results demonstrate that MSH possesses the capacity to regulate not only melanogenesis, but also other factors critical to the metastatic growth of the cells.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0020-7136
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
45
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1151-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:2161802-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:2161802-Cell Line, pubmed-meshheading:2161802-Cell Transformation, Neoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:2161802-Clone Cells, pubmed-meshheading:2161802-Female, pubmed-meshheading:2161802-Flow Cytometry, pubmed-meshheading:2161802-Interferon-gamma, pubmed-meshheading:2161802-Killer Cells, Natural, pubmed-meshheading:2161802-Melanoma, Experimental, pubmed-meshheading:2161802-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:2161802-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:2161802-Neoplasm Metastasis, pubmed-meshheading:2161802-Neoplasm Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:2161802-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:2161802-Receptors, Pituitary Hormone, pubmed-meshheading:2161802-Recombinant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:2161802-Specific Pathogen-Free Organisms, pubmed-meshheading:2161802-Tumor Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:2161802-alpha-MSH
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Differentiation and the tumorigenic and metastatic phenotype of murine melanoma cells.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study