title: [Establishment of alpha-fetoprotein producing human rectal cancer cell line (RKK-YK) and its features].
abstract: We succeeded in establishing a rectal cancer cell line RKK-YK from the primary lesion in a patient with rectal cancer. It took 36.2 hours for duplication. We were able to transplant the RKK-YK cell line to nude mice at a transplantation rate of 50%. The transplanted tumor exhibited histological features similar to those of the primary lesion. Cancer cells with two different degrees of differentiation, in which features of moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma and well-differentiated adenocarcinoma were observed together, were established. The levels of the tumor markers (CEA, CA19-9 and AFP) were elevated in the supernatant of the culture solution and the serum of the nude mice over time course. In the immunohistological examination of the transplanted tumor, anti-CEA, anti-CA19-9 and anti-AFP antibodies were positively stained. Molecular biological analysis revealed nor point mutation or deletion in K-ras gene exon 1 and 2, p53 gene exon 5 to 11 or MCC.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Kitasato University Medical School, Kanagawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kokuba
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Otani
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kakita
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamashita
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology*; D000818:Animals; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000032:analysis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008819:Mice, Nude; D008875:Middle Aged; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D000509:alpha-Fetoproteins / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D000509:alpha-Fetoproteins