title: Sensitivity pattern of normal and Ha-ras transformed NIH3T3 fibroblasts to antineoplastic drugs.
abstract: Ha-ras-transformed NIH3T3 fibroblasts were compared with the parental cell line to investigate the influence of the Ha-ras oncogene on cellular chemosensitivity to antineoplastic drugs. Four NIH3T3 cell clones independently transformed by the Ha-ras oncogene, activated by mutation or overexpression, were analyzed: 3 clones were obtained by transfection of NIH3T3 cells with a mutation-activated Ha-ras gene and 1 clone by transfection of a large copy number of the normal Ha-ras proto-oncogene. Chemosensitivity of the transformed clones and of the parental cell line was analyzed when cells were in the same condition of proliferative activity and cell cycle phase distribution. No significant differences in chemosensitivity were observed between transformed and untransformed cell lines to doxorubicin, VP-16, cis-platinum or mitomycin C. Therefore, data suggest that activated Ha-ras oncogenes have no role in sensitivity to these antineoplastic agents.
authors.affiliation: Division of Experimental Oncology, Oncologic Reference Center, Aviano-Pordenone, Italy.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Toffoli
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Viel
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tumiotto
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Buttazzi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Biscontin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boiocchi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002453:Cell Cycle / Q000187:drug effects; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D002460:Cell Line; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic / Q000235:genetics*; D004351:Drug Resistance; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000187:drug effects; D011905:Genes, ras; D015151:Immunoblotting; D051379:Mice
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents