The Presence of Scatter Factor in Patients with Metastatic Spread to the Pleura

Overview

Journal Br J Cancer

Specialty Oncology

Date 1992 Aug 1

PMID 1387000

Citations 9

Authors

P Kenworthy

P Dowrick

B McCann

H Tsubouchi

N Arakaki

Y Daikuhara

R M Warn

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Abstract

Pleural effusion fluid obtained from eleven patients with metastatic spread to the pleura was screened for the ability to cause the dispersal--'scattering'--of MDCK colonies in vitro. Four of these samples proved to be positive using this assay. Of these two had titres high enough to warrant further purification on a cation exchange Mono S column. Active material from both lung samples, eluted at the same positions as factor from cultured human lung fibroblasts (MRC-5) and human placenta but in a slightly different position to murine scatter factor. In both cases the semi-purified active agent was identified as hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor (HGF/SF) using an ELISA detection system specific for human HGF/SF. This is the first report identifying the presence of significant amounts of HGF/SF in the pleura of patients where malignant spread has occurred.

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