title: [Establishment and pathological study of a new poorly differentiated mucinous gastric cancer cell line].
abstract: We succeeded in establishing a human gastric carcinoma cell line (KE-97) from oncocytes obtained from the mesentery disseminated metastatic focus of a 52-year-old male stomach cancer patient. From a histopathological point of view the gastric carcinoma was clearly a mucin-producing mucinous carcinoma, portion of which were mixed with poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma and signet-ring cell carcinoma. The oncocytes were fused into a mass and exhibited a suspended proliferating system, with a doubling time of about 28.8 hours. Transplantation of the cancer cells into skid mice resulted in a tumor system in all cases, and histologically, mucinous vacuoles were found in the cell membranes. With immunological staining they were found to be positive for anti-CEA antibodies, anti-CA19-9 antibodies and anti-ICAM-1 antibodies. Autopsy found extensive hematogenous metastasis (lung, liver) and cancerous peritonitis. KE-97 is mucinous carcinoma, and it was reported with the belief that it is a useful cell line upon the investigation of its cancer metastasis mechanism and cytological characteristics.
authors.affiliation: Division of Surgical Pathology, Kitasato East Hospital, Kitasato University.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Uesugi
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Atari
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology; D002288:Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous / Q000473:pathology*; D000818:Animals; D018279:Carcinoma, Signet Ring Cell / Q000473:pathology; 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