{"title":"Effects of estrogen on the growth of mouse teratocarcinoma OTT6050 in vivo.","authors":"K Kubota, R Kubota, T Matsuzawa","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The effects of estrogen, antiestrogen and ovariectomy on the growth of a mouse teratocarcinoma, OTT6050, were studied in vivo. Subcutaneous tumors transplanted in syngeneic 129/Sv male and female mice were measured, and tumor-growth curves were constructed using the products of three principal tumor diameters, designated tumor volume. There was a linear correlation between the measured tumor volume and the actual excised tumor volume. The tumor growth rate in estrogen-treated groups was significantly greater than that in the control group, and the difference in tumor volume between treated groups and controls increased with time. However, dose responsiveness was not observed. In antiestrogen-treated or ovariectomized mice, tumor growth was partially inhibited only at the early stages. The mean survival time of estrogen-treated and ovariectomized groups was shorter than that of controls, while that of the antiestrogen-treated group was identical to that of controls. Histologically, no specifically different types of differentiated tissues were observed in any group. Our experiments show that estrogen is one important factor which stimulates the growth of one form of teratocarcinoma.</p>","PeriodicalId":79244,"journal":{"name":"Oncodevelopmental biology and medicine : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine","volume":"4 5","pages":"309-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17907792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Radiocrossed immunoelectrophoretical heterogeneity of beta 2-microglobulin in blood from patients with germ cell tumors and with colorectal cancer.","authors":"J Hangaard, B Norgaard-Pedersen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A new sensitive radiocrossed immunoelectrophoretic method has been used to analyse beta 2-microglobulin heterogeneity in serum samples from 20 healthy controls, 127 patients with germ cell tumors (GCT) (102 testicular, 15 mediastinal and 10 infantile GCT) and 90 patients with colorectal cancer. Overall, 95% of cancer patients showed an abnormal beta 2-microglobulin pattern (precipitate with beta 1 or alpha 2 mobility before treatment) whereas all healthy controls only had one normal precipitate in the beta 2 region, The beta 2-microglobulin heterogeneity was correlated with disease stage in both GCT and colorectal cancer, and to some extent also with the outcome. The exact clinical relevance of beta 2-microglobulin heterogeneity in cancer patients is still unknown. The phenomenon may be due to proteolytic enzymes, increased turnover of surface membrane constituents, complex formation between tumor antigen and beta 2-microglobulin, polymers of beta 2-microglobulin or activation of the reticuloendothelial system.</p>","PeriodicalId":79244,"journal":{"name":"Oncodevelopmental biology and medicine : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine","volume":"4 6","pages":"C105-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17377736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R F James, R Szumski, P G Gillett, J Shuster, P Gold
{"title":"Maternal plasma HbF levels in pregnancy.","authors":"R F James, R Szumski, P G Gillett, J Shuster, P Gold","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Serial maternal serum hemoglobin F (HbF) levels were measured by radioimmunoassay in 23 normal pregnancies. The maternal HbF fraction remains within the normal range during the first trimester (mean + 2 S.D. = 0.15 + 0.13). After 15 weeks gestation, maternal HbF levels rise in some, but not all, pregnancies. In about 30% of the cases the HbF fraction remains within the range seen in adult men and non-pregnant women. Irregular rises in HbF were found in other pregnancies studied serially. The maternal HbF fraction may be an indicator of transplacental hemorrhage.</p>","PeriodicalId":79244,"journal":{"name":"Oncodevelopmental biology and medicine : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine","volume":"4 4","pages":"239-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17252847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relationship of neoantigens induced by 3-methyl-cholanthrene treatment of Syrian hamster embryo cells to antigens expressed on fetal and 3-methyl-cholanthrene-transformed neoplastic cells.","authors":"R P McCabe, C H Evans, J A Dipaolo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Neoantigen(s) induced on Syrian hamster cells during chemical carcinogenesis are also found on fetal and neoplastic hamster cells. 46 neoplastic cell lines independently isolated from colonies of 3-methylcholanthrene (3-MCA) in vitro-transformed hamster cells growing in semi-solid agar medium were assayed for expression of neoantigens recognized by hamster antisera to primary cultured late-term (15 days) hamster embryo cells treated for 18 h with 10 micrograms 3-MCA/ml. Ratios of the binding of this sera compared to solvent control sera ranged from 0.7 to 2.1 in terms of cpm bound. Only four of the 46 neoplastic cell lines exhibited significant (P less than 0.05) neoantigen expression. No correlation existed between the concentration of 3-MCA used to establish the neoplastic cell line and expression of the neoantigen(s). Absorption of the sera with these four highly reactive neoplastic cell lines and mid-term (10 days) embryo cells indicated that the neoantigen(s) recognized were common to the four reactive neoplastic cell lines and the mid-gestation fetal cells. The occurrence of early persistent immunogenic cell-surface alterations during in vitro carcinogenesis provides an approach to isolation of preneoplastic populations and provides potential target structures for the inhibition of carcinogenesis.</p>","PeriodicalId":79244,"journal":{"name":"Oncodevelopmental biology and medicine : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine","volume":"4 6","pages":"383-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17701445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The occurrence of chicken foetal antigen after infection with Marek's disease virus in three strains of chicken.","authors":"P C Powell, K J Hartley, B M Mustill, M Rennie","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An indirect immunofluorescence procedure employing specific antiserum was used to demonstrate chicken foetal antigen (CFA), a membrane antigen typically present on embryonic cells. The expression of CFA by lymphocytes from the peripheral blood, spleen, thymus and bursa was found to decline rapidly after hatching; the bursa, however, contained about 30% CFA-positive cells until at least 120 days of age. After infection of a genetically susceptible strain of chickens (HPRS Rhode Island Red) with Marek's disease virus, the expression of CFA by lymphocytes in the blood and lymphoid organs was found to increase steadily. Lymphomas which developed contained, on average, 25.7% CFA-expressing cells. In contrast, a second susceptible strain (line 7) showed no increase in CFA expression (compared with uninfected controls), and lymphomas from these birds contained only 4.8% positive cells. A genetically resistant strain (line 6) also did not differ from uninfected controls. It was concluded that in Marek's disease, CFA expression is associated with malignant transformation, although transformation may occur without the appearance of CFA, and that CFA is a marker for a stage of dedifferentiation of transformed cells rather than a marker for transformation. The degree of dedifferentiation seems to vary from strain to strain.</p>","PeriodicalId":79244,"journal":{"name":"Oncodevelopmental biology and medicine : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine","volume":"4 4","pages":"261-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17886586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Production of Kasahara isoenzyme by OKK cell line established from a human maxillary carcinoma.","authors":"M Tanaka, S Kudo, K Higashino, S Kishimoto","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A cell line, designated OKK, has been established from a human maxillary carcinoma in a Japanese man. The cultured cells were inoculated into nude mice, with the subsequent establishment of tumors. Alkaline phosphatases were extracted from these tumors and partially purified by chromatography. The electrophoretically fastest moving isoenzyme, designated tentatively as OKK T isoenzyme, was biochemically and immunologically investigated by comparing it with the Kasahara isoenzyme purified partially from the tumor, which originated from FL cells inoculated into a nude mouse. The properties of the OKK T isoenzyme were identical to those of the Kasahara isoenzyme. Thus, the enzymes showed a similar inhibition by amino acids (L-phenylalanine and L-leucine), the same behavior with respect to other properties, including heat stability, immunological character and molecular weight. The genetic phenotype of the glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase of this established cell line was proved not to be identical to that of a HeLa cell line.</p>","PeriodicalId":79244,"journal":{"name":"Oncodevelopmental biology and medicine : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine","volume":"4 4","pages":"245-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17886585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tumor markers in testicular germ cell tumors related to the stage of the disease at the time of diagnosis.","authors":"G K Jacobsen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A series of 170 consecutive patients with testicular germ cell tumors (88 seminomas and 82 non-seminomas) had preoperative serum samples and primary tumor tissue examined for the presence of the tumor markers, alphafetoprotein (AFP) and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) by immunologic techniques. Staging was performed, using a clinico- radiological system, i.e., stage I, tumor confined to testis; stage II, metastases to abdominal lymph nodes only: stage III, metastases to supradiaphragmatic lymph nodes and/or extranodal disease. Seminoma:all 36% had stage II+III disease. 55% of the patients with AFP had localized disease, and 45% had stage II+III. The frequency of patients with stage I non-seminoma with raised serum HCG was 63% compared to 37% in stage II+III. Within the group of HCG-positive non-seminomas, 60% were in stage I and 40% in stage II. Since a high frequency of patients with metastatic disease did not occur among the patients with AFP or HCG in preoperative serum samples or in primary tumor tissue, we conclude that neither AFP nor HCG are especially associated with metastatic properties. The higher frequency of patients with raised serum values among all patients with metastatic disease compared to localized disease may only reflect a greater tumor burden.</p>","PeriodicalId":79244,"journal":{"name":"Oncodevelopmental biology and medicine : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine","volume":"4 6","pages":"C39-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17261173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lectin-binding heterogeneity of alphafetoprotein (AFP). An observation in nude mouse xenografts of endodermal sinus tumors and in pediatric surgical patients.","authors":"Y Tsuchida, S Saito, M Kaneko, R Yoshida, Y Endo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We determined by affinity chromatography on concanavalin A-Sepharose the carbohydrate variant patterns of alphafetoprotein in the sera of 15 infants and children with endodermal sinus tumors (five cases), a neonatal mature teratoma (one case), hepatoblastomas (two cases), pancreatic carcinoma (one case), biliary atresia (four cases), neonatal hepatitis (one case) and neonatal hyperbilirubinemia (one case), in the sera from four normal neonates, and in the sera from two kinds of nude mice bearing human endodermal sinus tumors. Sera from patients with endodermal sinus tumors and pancreatic carcinoma were found to contain a relatively high proportion (48.4 +/- 4.5 and 52.6%) of alphafetoprotein which did not bind to concanavalin A. Sera from nude mice with human endodermal sinus tumors contained AFP, 96.2% of which did not bind to concanavalin A. Sera from patients with other lesions (nine cases) and from normal neonates, whose AFPs are all presumed to be of hepatic origin, contained much less (5.9 +/- 3.6%) of the concanavalin A non-binding AFP variant. These results indicate that human AFP has three distinct patterns of reactivity with concanavalin A and that studies in xenograft models may give important information relating to the glycosylation and secretion process of AFP.</p>","PeriodicalId":79244,"journal":{"name":"Oncodevelopmental biology and medicine : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine","volume":"4 6","pages":"C53-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17261771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Yolk sac-derived malignant tumors develop in the absence of germ cells.","authors":"H Sobis, M Vandeputte","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Malignant tumors composed of extra-embryonic tissues are considered to be of germ cell origin. Since such tumors can also originate from displaced yolk sac we verified whether these neoplasms develop from germ cells possibly present in this fetal membrane. For this purpose we treated pregnant rats with Busulphan. This drug, which is known to destroy germ cells during their migratory phase, led to the complete absence of these cells in genital ridges of 12-day-old embryos removed during fetectomy. This treatment, however, did not influence the incidence or the latency period of yolk sac carcinomas or teratocarcinomas. Therefore, it is concluded that malignant yolk sac-derived tumors are not of germ cell origin.</p>","PeriodicalId":79244,"journal":{"name":"Oncodevelopmental biology and medicine : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine","volume":"4 6","pages":"415-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17261776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monoclonal antibodies against pregnancy-specific beta 1-glycoprotein (SP1) in immunohistochemistry and radioimmunoassay.","authors":"T Wahlström, M Heikinheimo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Monoclonal mouse antibodies against pregnancy-specific beta-1-glycoprotein (SP1) have been studied for their suitability in immunoperoxidase staining and radioimmunoassay methodologies. These antibodies were useful in staining normal placentas, hydatidiform moles, invasive moles and choriocarcinomas. They showed good specificity, with minimal background staining, and will thus be superior to conventional polyclonal antisera in immunohistochemistry. However, the presently tested monoclonal anti-SP1 antibodies were found not to be suitable for radioimmunoassay.</p>","PeriodicalId":79244,"journal":{"name":"Oncodevelopmental biology and medicine : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine","volume":"4 6","pages":"423-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17261777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}