Human ductal adenocarcinomas of the pancreas express extracellular matrix proteins (original) (raw)

Clinical Oncology/Epidemiology

British Journal of Cancer volume 69, pages 144–151 (1994)Cite this article

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Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas are characterised by a dense connective tissue reaction. To test the hypothesis that stroma components are synthesised and produced by the tumour cells themselves, eight cell lines as well as six xenografted tumours from human ductal adenocarcinomas of the pancreas were examined for the expression of extracellular matrix proteins (ECM), using cDNA probes and antibodies to collagen types I, III and IV, vitronectin, fibronectin, undulin and laminin. All tumour cell lines (CAPAN-1, CAPAN-2, AsPC-1, BxPC-3, PANC-1, PaCa-2, PaCa-3, PaCa-44) and xenografted human pancreatic tumours expressed at least one of the examined ECM at the RNA (collagen type IV > laminin = fibronectin = vitronectin > collagen type III > undulin > collagen type I) or protein level (collagen type IV = collagen type III > vitronectin > laminin > collagen type I = fibronectin > undulin). In nude mouse tumours expression of laminin and collagen I was most pronounced in well-differentiated carcinomas. In a few tumours, collagen type III, vitronectin and undulin were expressed on the luminal side of the neoplastic glands, suggesting loss of normal polar differentiation. Incubation with fetal calf serum modulated ECM RNA levels to a varying extent in all but one cell line (AsPC-1). The results suggest that human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas cells are capable of synthesising and producing extracellular matrix proteins in vitro and in vivo, but that the extent and pattern of ECM expression differs between the various tumours and conditions tested.

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  1. Department of Medicine I, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
    M Löhr

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  2. B Trautmann
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  3. M Göttler
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Dedicated to Prof. Dr. Med. Prof. H.C. Eberhard Löhr on the occasion of his 65th birthday.

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Löhr, M., Trautmann, B., Göttler, M. et al. Human ductal adenocarcinomas of the pancreas express extracellular matrix proteins.Br J Cancer 69, 144–151 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.1994.24

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