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Differential inducibilities of GFAP expression, cytostasis and apoptosis in primary cultures of human astrocytic tumours

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Author	Chen, M H. Yang, W. K. Whang Peng, J. Lee, L S. Huang, T S.
Copyright Year	1998
Abstract	Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) is an astrocytic lineage-specific intermediate filament protein, and its expression or non-expression is inversely correlated with the tumourigenecity of astrocytoma cells. To estimate the GFAP levels of astrocytes in intracranial tumour tissues, we established primary cultures from six astrocytic tumour specimens and used a double-staining flow cytometric method to detect the different levels of GFAP among these primary cultures. Although these primary cultures exhibited the same Matrigel invasiveness, their GFAP expression is inversely related to the rate of cell growth and the histologic grade of the original tumour. Phenylacetate, 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) and sodium butyrate, which are potent inducers of differentiation in various cancer cells, have been examined for their effects on these primary cultures. Cytostasis was more or less caused by these compounds in all six primary cultures, but induction of GFAP was observed only in the primary culture derived from a less malignant astrocytoma specimen having the highest intrinsic GFAP level. Interestingly, this primary culture, but not others, also exhibited increased HRG-α expression after phenylacetate or sodium butyrate treatment. Loss of the inducibility of differentiation-related gene expression could be one of the events involved in the malignant progression of astrocytomas. In addition, the chemotherapeutic agent BiCNU has a killing effect on all six primary culture cells, with LD50 less than 60nM. The underlying mechanism was through the induction of apoptosis in these primary culture cells regardless of their varying malignancies of original tumours. However, unlike colon cancer and leukaemia cells, sodium butyrate could not induce apoptosis within 4 days in these astrocytic tumour cells, indicating that the cell context of different cell types indeed determined the ability of sodium butyrate to induce apoptosis.
Starting Page	171
Ending Page	182
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13608185
Journal	Apoptosis
Volume Number	3
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	1573675X
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	1998-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Cancer Research Virology Oncology Biochemistry Cell Biology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Pharmaceutical Science Biochemistry (medical) Cell Biology Clinical Biochemistry Cancer Research Pharmacology

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