Multiple levels of post-transcriptional regulation of collagenase (matrix metalloproteinase 1) in an epithelial cell line

1993 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. WHITELOCK ◽  
M. L. PAINE ◽  
J. R. GIBBINS ◽  
R. F. KEFFORD ◽  
R. L. O'GRADY
Author(s):  
Li C.L. ◽  
Chew E.C. ◽  
Huang D.P. ◽  
Ho H.C. ◽  
Mak L.S. ◽  
...  

An epithelial cell line, NPC/HK1, has recently been successfully established from a nasopharyngeal carcinoma of the moderately to well differentiated squamous type. The present communication reports on the surface morphology of the NPC/HK1 cells in culture.


1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-221
Author(s):  
Henning F. Bjerregaard

An established epithelial cell line (A6) from a South African clawed toad (Xenopus laevis) kidney was used as a model for the corneal epithelium of the eye in order to determine ocular irritancy. When grown on Millipore filter inserts, A6 cells form a monolayer epithelium of high electrical resistance and generate a trans-epithelial potential difference. These two easily-measured electrophysiological endpoints showed a dose-related decrease after exposure for 24 hours to seven selected chemicals of different ocular irritancy potential. It was demonstrated that both trans-epithelial resistance and potential ranked closely with in vivo eye irritancy data and correlated well (r = 0.96) with loss of trans-epithelial impermeability of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, detected by use of a fluorescein leakage assay.


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