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. 1989 Jun;59(6):876–882. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1989.186

Mesothelial cells stimulate the anchorage-independent growth of human ovarian tumour cells.

A P Wilson 1
PMCID: PMC2246730  PMID: 2786728

Abstract

Results are presented which show that mesothelial cells (MC) from ovarian cancer patients can both stimulate and inhibit the clonogenic growth of ovarian tumour cells (TC) in a dose-dependent fashion. TC lines from both non-ovarian and ovarian tumours were variable in their response to MC. Colony formation was rarely induced when the TC population was non-clonogenic and a bladder cell line showed inhibition of colony formation in the presence of MC. Primary tumour cultures from ovarian cancer patients also showed a variable response to MC. Fibroblasts from malignant, benign and non-neoplastic sources were significantly less effective in stimulating the clonogenic growth of responsive cell lines. Conditioned medium was a poor substitute for the presence of intact viable cells, and distance between feeder cell and TC was an important factor in determining the magnitude of response. A significant relationship between the feeder effect of MC and their proliferation in soft agar was observed when epidermal growth factor was used in the medium. The relevance of the findings in the context of the pattern of spread of ovarian cancer is discussed.

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