scholarly journals Heterogeneity of circulating tumor cell dissemination and lung metastases in a subcutaneous Lewis lung carcinoma model

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 3633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica E. Fitzgerald ◽  
Brook K. Byrd ◽  
Roshani A. Patil ◽  
Rendall R. Strawbridge ◽  
Scott C. Davis ◽  
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1979 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 657-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ada Sacchi ◽  
Anna Corsi ◽  
Marco Caputo ◽  
Gabriella Zupi

Two tumor cell lines adapted to grow in vitro were originated from an explant of lung metastases of Lewis lung carcinoma. These lines differ in their malignancy when reinoculated into syngeneic animals; nevertheless, they do not show any difference for their in vitro clonogenic ability. From these lines 2 in vivo sublines of 3LL carcinoma were developed. The TD 50 of the 2 in vivo sublines are different, and both the values obtained are lower than that of the original line. These results are interpreted as a selection of more malignant tumor cell lines.


1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.B. Donati ◽  
A. Poggi ◽  
L. Mussoni ◽  
L. Kornblihtt ◽  
G.de Gaetano ◽  
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The Lewis Lung Carcinoma (3LL) is a spontaneously metastasizing tumor, the development of which is eccompanied by marked hemostatic changes. Acceleration of labelled fibrinogen turnover and fibrin accumulation at the tumor and metastasis sites have been observed in 3LL bearing mice. Both the number and the weight of lung metastases were significantly lower in mice anti-coagulated with racemic sodium warfarin during the whole tumor development period (prothrombin complex activity around 20%). This treatment had less effect on the primary tumor. The anti-metastatic effect was slightly greater with larger doses of warfarin, which lowered the prothrombin complex activity to less than 5%. Continuous anticoagulation also protected the animals from pulmonary growth of blood-borne tumor emboli following intravenous injection of 3LL cells. This effect appeared to be closely associated with the anticoagulant activity of warfarin; indeed experiments performed with the resolved warfarin enantiomers showed that R-warfarin had virtually no anticlotting activity in mice and did not modify the metastatic growth of 3LL cells; the opposite was true for S-warfarin.Lung metastasis growth was increased in mice kept defibrinogenated during the whole period of tumor development by treatment with batrcxobin; in contrast, in mice kept defibrinated only during the period of metastasis growth, with or without surgical removal of the primary tumor, metastasis formation was slightly decreased. This suggests that fibrin may play different roles in various phases of metastaticspreading of the same tumor.


Blood ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 110 (11) ◽  
pp. 3909-3909
Author(s):  
Carroll R. Smith ◽  
Kenneth J. Salleng ◽  
Vaia Y. Sigounas ◽  
Adam Asch ◽  
George Sigounas

Abstract Several studies have reported that erythropoietin (Epo) is a pleiotropic cytokine with biological properties in addition to its primary function in regulating maturation, growth and survival along the erythroid lineage. Recently, a number of investigators have reported that various neoplastic tissues and human cancer cell lines express Epo and the Epo receptor (EpoR), raising suspicion for the presence of an autocrine-paracrine Epo-EpoR system. It has been shown that inhibition of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) results in an increase of Epo secretion and increased hematocrit in vivo. In this study, we used an in vivo Lewis lung carcinoma model to examine a converse Epo effect on VEGF production and metastasis. Lewis lung carcinoma (LLC) cells were injected subcutaneously into C57BL mice. The plasma levels of VEGF, the tumor vessel formation, the size of the primary tumors and the extent of lung metastatic disease were determined. In addition, intravenously injected LLC cells seeded in the lungs were assessed. Tumor-bearing animals treated with Epo had 23.6% less VEGF in the plasma compared to saline treated mice (p<0.04). There was no correlation between VEGF concentration and hemoglobin levels in either group of animals. Tumor sections indicated that the number of blood vessels was higher (10.7% for inner and 23.8% for outer, respectively) in tumors obtained from animals treated with saline compared to Epo-treated mice (p>0.05). Using non-parametric analysis, we found that there was a statistically significant difference in tumor growth between saline-treated and Epo-treated animals (p<0.05). However, the number of lung metastases derived from primary tumors was similar in both groups. In assessing size of the metastatic tumors, we found that the average volume of lung nodules was 24.2% higher in saline-injected animals compared to Epo-treated mice. The number of tumors seeded in the lungs following intravenous injection of LLC cells was similar in animals treated with a high dosage of Epo, low dosage of Epo or saline. In addition, the average volume of the nodules was reduced by 42% in animals treated with high and low concentrations of Epo compared to the control group (p = 0.03). In conclusion, Epo exerts a paracrine suppressive effect on VEGF secretion resulting in slower tumor growth in this model.


2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (10) ◽  
pp. 1534-1539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Chemi ◽  
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Dominic G. Rothwell ◽  
Nicholas McGranahan ◽  
Sakshi Gulati ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. ii36 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Michailidou ◽  
V. Giannouli ◽  
I. Kostakis ◽  
V. Kotsikoris ◽  
P. Marakos ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
V V Sarnatskaya ◽  
V G Nikolaev ◽  
L A Yushko ◽  
L M Paziuk ◽  
O M Karaman ◽  
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Aim: To study the correcting effects of microgranulated HSGD enterosorbent on hematological, morphological and biochemical indices of paraneoplastic syndrome in mice with highly angiogenic variant of Lewis lung carcinoma LLC/R9. Methods: The study was performed on male С57/ВL6 mice with transplanted LLC/R9. Enterosorbent HSGD was administered daily at a dose of 0.625 g/kg for 2 weeks starting from 7th day after tumor cell transplantation. When enterosorption was completed, an analysis of peripheral blood, biochemical indices and morphological structure of tumor, lung, liver, spleen and thymus was carried out by standard methods. Results: It has been shown that administration of enterosorbent did not affect LLC/R9 growth but resulted in nearly two fold decrease of the volume of lung metastases (p < 0.05). Erythrocyte number and hemoglobin level were higher by 30.0% (p < 0.05) and 23.3% (p < 0.05), respectively, in mice treated with enterosorbents as compared to untreated animals. In addition sorbent treatment completely normalized the thrombocyte index resulting in elevation of platelet number by 54.5% (p < 0.01) up to their level in intact mice. The morphological examination of liver and biochemical analysis of peripheral blood evidenced on significant positive correcting effect of enterosorption on histological structure of this organ and its functional activ ity. Normalization of total proteins and serum albumin level as well as significant decrease of total lipid concentration by 29% (p < 0.01) in blood of treated mice were observed. Conclusion: Positive influence of microgranulated carbon sorbent on some hematological, morphological and biochemical indices of tumor associated symptoms in LLC/R9-bearing mice denotes that enterosorption-based therapy can be considered as a prospective treatment for correction of some paraneoplastic syndrome signs in cancer patients.


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