title: [Characterization of a fluorouracil-resistant human gastric carcinoma cell line and its morphological behavior].
abstract: A fluorouracil (FU)-resistant human carcinoma cell line (SGC-7901/R) was established in culture by progressively increasing the concentration of FU from 50 ng.ml-1 to 2.5 mg.ml-1. The cell line has been successfully subcultured for more than 150 passages during more than 2 years. Its degree of FU resistance was 139-fold vs that of FU sensitive cell line (SGC-7901/S), and the resistant phenotype was stable when cells were cultured for 23 passages in FU-free medium. The doubling time was 17.3 and 25.6 h for resistant cells and parental cells, respectively. Swiss (nu/nu) nude mice were used for the in vivo experiment, the FU-resistant cell line also exhibited resistance to FU and cross-resistance to mitomycin C. FU inhibited markedly the incorporation of [3H]UR into sensitive cells and only showed a 31.6% inhibition with FU 100 micrograms.ml-1 in resistant cells. For the incorporation of [3H]TdR into DNA, inhibitory rates were seen with different concentrations of FU in resistant cells. By morphologic observation, SGC-7901/R cells showed little secretion but without any tendency to glandular pattern. Their nuclei were allotype with enlarged perinuclear space and a few intranuclear pseudoinclusions. The mitotic phase of cells was found frequently. The phenotype of resistant cell line can be deduced more malignant than that of parental cell line.
authors.affiliation: Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
authors.forename: X F
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Yue
authors.forename: J X
authors.initials: JX
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Z Q
authors.initials: ZQ
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.forename: M Z
authors.initials: MZ
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: W Y
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: J Y
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: S Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm / Q000096:biosynthesis; D004351:Drug Resistance; D005472:Fluorouracil / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008819:Mice, Nude; D016685:Mitomycin / Q000494:pharmacology; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D012334:RNA, Neoplasm / Q000096:biosynthesis; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D004273:DNA, Neoplasm; D012334:RNA, Neoplasm; D016685:Mitomycin; D005472:Fluorouracil