title: Human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor is a growth factor active on human ovarian cancer cells.
abstract: Human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is a regulatory glycoprotein that stimulates the production of granulocytes and macrophages from committed hematopoietic progenitor cells both in vitro and in vivo. In this report, we show that recombinant human GM-CSF enhances colony formation by nonhematopoietic human ovarian cancer cell lines, IGROV-1, A2774, ME-180, Pa-1 and A2780. GM-CSF also enhanced the colony formation by cells obtained from fresh ascites of a patient with ovarian mucinous cystadenocarcinoma and a patient with serous papillary ovarian carcinoma. Our observations were made with GM-CSF concentrations between 0.1 to 1 ng/ml; these concentrations are equivalent to the dosages generally used for bone marrow recovery after chemotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Carcinogenesis, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genova, Italy.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cimoli
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Russo
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Billi
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Mariani
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rovini
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Venturini
mesh_terms: D001201:Ascites; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects*; D002460:Cell Line; D005260:Female; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor