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. 2016 Feb 17;5:777. doi: 10.1038/bonekey.2016.4

Table 1. Prostate cancer cell line used in bone metastasis research.

Cell line Origin PSA AR Bone lesion Model References
DU145 Central nerve system metastasis (Human) Negative Negative Osteolytic Intratibial injection, Intracardiac injection, Intravenous injection into human bone implanted animals Conley-LaComb et al.,3 Stone et al.,4 Nemeth et al.,5 Yin et al.6
PC-3 Vertebral bone metastasis (Human) Negative Negative Osteolytic Intratibial injection, Intrafemoral injection, intracardiac injection, Intravenous injection into human bone implanted animals Kaighn et al.,7 Nemeth et al.,5 Chu et al.,8 Wu et al.,9 Zhang et al.10
LNCaP Lymph node metastasis (Human) Positive Positive Osteoblastic/Osteolytic Intrafemoral injection, Intravenous injection into human bone implanted animals Nemeth et al.,5 Horoszewicz et al.,11 Wu et al.9
LNCaP C4-2 LNCaP subline C4 xenograft line Positive Positive Osteoblastic Intratibial injection, Intrafemoral injection, intracardiac injection Thalmann et al.,12 Wu et al.9
LNCaP C4-2B LNCaP subline C4-2 xenograft line Positive Positive Osteoblastic Intrafemoral injection Thalmann et al.,12 Wu et al.9
MDA PCa 2b Bone metastasis (Human) Positive Positive Osteoblastic Intrafemoral injection Navone et al.,13 Cheng et al.,14 Yang et al.15
VCaP Vertebral bone metastasis (Human) Positive Positive Osteoblastic Intratibial injection Korenchuk et al.,16 Kirschenbaum et al.17
22Rv1 CWR22R xenograft line Positive Positive Osteoblastic/Osteolytic Intratibial injection Sramkoski et al.,18 Henry et al.19
LAPC-9 Femoral bone metastasis (Human) Positive Positive Osteoblastic Intratibial injection Craft et al.,20 Lee et al.,21 Lee et al.22
ARCaP Ascites of a patient with advanced metastatic disease (Human) Positive Positive Osteoblastic/Osteolytic Intracardiac injection Zhau et al.,23 Odero-Marah et al.,24 Xu et al.25
LuCaP23.1 Lymph node metastasis (Human) Positive Positive Osteoblastic Intratibial injection Ellis et al.,26 Morrissey et al.,27 Brubaker et al.28

Abbreviations: AR, androgen receptor; PSA, prostate-specific antigen.