Metabolic cooperation in vitro: differential ability of ouabain to uncouple normal, preneoplastic, and neoplastic mouse mammary cells.
作者:
Miller(F R),McInerney(D),Miller(B E)
状态:
发布时间1986-12-18
, 更新时间 2014-11-20
期刊:
Biochem Biophys Res Commun
摘要:
We utilized two assays for metabolic cooperation in vitro, one in which cells were grown in monolayer and one in which the cells formed three-dimensional structures in a collagen gel matrix. Both assays required one of the test cell pair to be resistant both to ouabain and to thioguanine (deficient in hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase). Normal mammary gland cells, cells from preneoplastic mouse hyperplastic alveolar nodules, and mouse mammary tumor cells were metabolically linked in vitro to the drug-resistant tumor cells. Ouabain abrogated communication between tumor cells and normal mammary gland cells and between tumor cells and preneoplastic cells but had no effect on communication between tumor cells.