Screening for genes involved in tissue invasion based on placenta formation and cancer cell lines with low and high metastatic potential

Ken Kataoka, Akinori Nakajima, Yoshimi Takata, Shigeru Saito, Nam ho Huh*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

During the formation of placenta, trophoblast cells vigorously invade maternal uterine tissues, sharing many features with the invasion of cancers. We applied RNA differential display to placenta tissues from 8.5 to 17.5 days post-coitus (dpc) ICR mice, and isolated 188 cDNA fragments expressed differentially. Among the 25 known cDNA fragments thus far analyzed, six cDNAs have been reported to be relevant to tumor invasion and/or metastasis. Furthermore, 11 of 20 unknown cDNAs isolated showed differential expression between the pairs of cancer cell lines with low and high metastatic potential, indicating potential usefulness of the present two-step approach.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)213-219
Number of pages7
JournalCancer Letters
Volume163
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2001/02/26

Keywords

  • Cancer cell lines
  • Differential display
  • Gene
  • Metastasis
  • Placenta

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Oncology
  • Cancer Research

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