title: [Establishment and characterization of a new poorly differentiated gastric cancer cell line (MKK-1), derived from Borrmann type 3 tumor].
abstract: A new human gastric cancer cell line (MKK-1), derived from Borrmann type 3 tumor of the stomach, was established. It was obtained from poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma. The cell line grew in vitro, forming a sheet of monolayered cells and attaching firmly to the inner surface of culture vessels; it continued to grow for more than 1 year and 4 months. Its doubling time was 12.6 hours, with a chromosomal mode of 69. The cells could grow in nude mice; histological findings of the tumors developed in the mice showed a pattern similar to those in the primary tumor, i.e., poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma. With regards to tumor-related antigens, production of the CA19-9 was observed as time-dependent increase and was detected at a level of 4 U/ml in the culture supernatant on passage day 7, showing high values compared with the control. Immunostaining was positive for both the anti CEA antibody and the anti CA19-9 antibody. In sera examined in week 4 after subcutaneous transplantation of MKK-1 to the nude mice, CEA and CA19-9 levels were high, at 8.93 ng/ml and 44 U/ml, respectively. There was a positive correlation between increase in a tumor weight and the production of tumor-related antigens.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Kitasato University Medical School, Kanagawa, Japan.
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authors.lastname: Ihara
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology*; D000818:Animals; D002455:Cell Division; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008819:Mice, Nude; D008875:Middle Aged; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured / Q000473:pathology*