title: Endothelial cells enhance spontaneous metastasis of human lung carcinoma cells in athymic mice.
abstract: The process of adhesion to endothelial cells is an important step in the progression to metastatic disease. The use of human neoplastic cell lines (now increasingly used in the study of the mechanisms of metastasis) in studying interactions with normal endothelial cells is therefore pertinent. In this report, the enhanced ability of a metastatic variant, MV522, of a human lung carcinoma cell line to adhere to endothelial cell monolayers is demonstrated. The ability to spontaneously metastasize from subcutaneous sites in athymic mice, of in vitro selected endothelial adhesive subpopulations of MV522 is also shown.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093.
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Varki
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Viswanathan
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Vu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002448:Cell Adhesion; D002452:Cell Count; D002455:Cell Division; D002460:Cell Line; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000166:cytology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary; D051379:Mice; D008819:Mice, Nude; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis / Q000473:pathology*; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation