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Tumor cell adhesion to frozen lymph node sections--a correlate of lymphatic metastasis in breast carcinoma models of human and rat origin.

Breast cancer research and treatment ·Vol. 17 ·No. 2 ·1990-12-00 ·Pages 109-20

Brodt P, Fallavollita L, Sawka RJ, Shibata P, Nip J, Kim U, Shibata H

Abstract

The role of tumor cell adhesion in lymphatic metastasis of breast cancer was investigated in vitro using a rat mammary carcinoma model of four cell lines with different metastatic phenotypes, two human breast cancer cell lines, and cryostast sections of normal rat or human lymph nodes, respectively. A positive correlation was found between the adhesion levels obtained with three metastatic rat mammary cell lines (TMT-081 greater than MT-100M & TMT-50) and a non-metastatic line MT-W9B, the latter being 3-4 fold less adhesive to the lymph node sections than the metastatic tumors. This selective adhesion was specific, as it was not found with cryostat sections of rat liver and brain. Enzyme assays indicated that cell surface glycoproteins bearing terminal beta-galactoside residues were involved in the adhesion of the rat tumors. Adhesion of the human breast carcinoma cells Hs578T to sections of human lymph nodes was significantly higher than that of the normal breast epithelial cell line Hs578Bst, and comparable to adhesion of a second breast carcinoma line, MCF-7. Moreover, Hs578T cells isolated from regional lymph nodes of tumor-bearing nude mice were significantly more adhesive to human lymph node sections than the parental line. Adhesion of both human and rat tumors could be partially blocked by the addition of the synthetic peptide GRGDSPK and by antibodies directed to the beta 1 chain of integrin, suggesting that an integrin receptor may played a role in the adhesion. The results suggest that tumor cell adhesion to cryostat sections of lymph nodes is a correlate of the malignant phenotype in mammary tumors of diverse origins, and could be used to delineate the adhesion factors mediating lymphatic metastasis.

MeSH Terms
Animals Cell Adhesion/physiology Female Humans Lymphatic Metastasis/pathology,physiopathology Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/pathology,physiopathology Rats Rats, Inbred WF Tumor Cells, Cultured
Authors & Affiliations
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Brodt P
Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Fallavollita L
Sawka R J
Shibata P
Nip J
Kim U
Shibata H
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Article Info
Journal
Breast cancer research and treatment
Abbr.
Breast Cancer Res Treat
ISSN
0167-6806
DOI
10.1007/BF01806291
Published
1990-12-00
Pages
109-20
Language
English
Region
Netherlands
NLM ID
8111104
Subset
IM
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PubMed source DOI: 10.1007/BF01806291 View journal details
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