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Tumor cell adhesion to frozen lymph node sections — a correlate of lymphatic metastasis in breast carcinoma models of human and rat origin

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The role of tumor cell adhesion in lymphatic metastasis of breast cancer was investigatedin vitro using a rat mammary carcinoma model of four cell lines with different metastatic phenotypes, two human breast cancer cell lines, and cryostast sections of normal rat or human lymph nodes, respectively. A positive correlation was found between the adhesion levels obtained with three metastatic rat mammary cell lines (TMT-081 > MT-100M & TMT-50) and a non-metastatic line MT-W9B, the latter being 3–4 fold less adhesive to the lymph node sections than the metastatic tumors. This selective adhesion was specific, as it was not found with cryostat sections of rat liver and brain. Enzyme assays indicated that cell surface glycoproteins bearing terminal β-galactoside residues were involved in the adhesion of the rat tumors.

Adhesion of the human breast carcinoma cells Hs578T to sections of human lymph nodes was significantly higher than that of the normal breast epithelial cell line Hs578Bst, and comparable to adhesion of a second breast carcinoma line, MCF-7. Moreover, Hs578T cells isolated from regional lymph nodes of tumor-bearing nude mice were significantly more adhesive to human lymph node sections than the parental line.

Adhesion of both human and rat tumors could be partially blocked by the addition of the synthetic peptide GRGDSPK and by antibodies directed to the β1 chain of integrin, suggesting that an integrin receptor may played a role in the adhesion. The results suggest that tumor cell adhesion to cryostat sections of lymph nodes is a correlate of the malignant phenotype in mammary tumors of diverse origins, and could be used to delineate the adhesion factors mediating lymphatic metastasis.

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  1. Department of Surgery and the Division of Surgical Research, McGill University, H3A 1A4, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Pnina Brodt, Lucia Fallavollita, Paul Shibata, John Nip & Henry Shibata

  2. Department of Pathology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Robert J. Sawka

  3. Department of Pathology, The Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA

    Untae Kim

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Brodt, P., Fallavollita, L., Sawka, R.J. et al. Tumor cell adhesion to frozen lymph node sections — a correlate of lymphatic metastasis in breast carcinoma models of human and rat origin. Breast Cancer Res Tr 17, 109–120 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01806291

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