title: A quantitative study of the interphasic nucleolar organizer regions in two human cervical carcinoma cell lines.
abstract: We have studied the relationship between interphase nucleolar organizer regions (NORs) distribution and nucleolar size in cancer cells under prolonged culture. Six morphometric parameters (NUCLEAR SIZE, NOR NUMB, AREA SUM, MEAN AREA, SIZE RATIO and SIZE RATIO MEAN) of AgNORs in cancer cells were analyzed by an image analyzing system. The results show that the parameters NORN NUMB, AREA SUM and NUCLEAR SIZE demonstrate the most consistent changes in the two cervical carcinoma cell lines studied. These three parameters of AgNORs appear to be correlated with the degree of "dedifferentiation" that occurred in tumor cells under prolonged culture.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT.
authors.forename: E C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Chew
authors.forename: T L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: W K
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Cham
authors.forename: S W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Chiu
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D002455:Cell Division; D002460:Cell Line; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007399:Interphase; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009697:Nucleolus Organizer Region / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure*