Dormancy of micrometastases: balanced proliferation and apoptosis in the presence of angiogenesis suppression - PubMed (original) (raw)
Dormancy of micrometastases: balanced proliferation and apoptosis in the presence of angiogenesis suppression
L Holmgren et al. Nat Med. 1995 Feb.
Abstract
In cancer patients, dormant micrometastases are often asymptomatic and clinically undetectable, for months or years, until relapse. We have studied dormant lung metastases under angiogenesis suppression in mice. The metastases exhibited rapid growth when the inhibition of angiogenesis was removed. Tumour cell proliferation, as measured by bromodeoxyuridine incorporation and immunohistochemical staining proliferating cell nuclear antigen, was not significantly different in dormant and growing metastases. However, tumour cells of dormant metastases exhibited a more than threefold higher incidence of apoptosis. These data show that metastases remain dormant when tumour cell proliferation is balanced by an equivalent rate of cell death and suggest that angiogenesis inhibitors control metastatic growth by indirectly increasing apoptosis in tumour cells.
Comment in
- Tumour dormancy: not so sleepy after all.
Murray C. Murray C. Nat Med. 1995 Feb;1(2):117-8. doi: 10.1038/nm0295-117. Nat Med. 1995. PMID: 7585003 No abstract available.
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