Expression of Fetal Antigens in Fetal and Adult Cells During Long-term Culture

Overview

Journal In Vitro

Specialties Anatomy & Histology
Cell Biology

Date 1978 Feb 1

PMID 669725

Authors

C C Ting

K K SANFORD

F M Price

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Abstract

Expression of fetal antigens in early and late passages of tissue culture cells derived from C3H/HeN and C57BL/KaLw mouse fetal cells and from lung tissue of young C57BL/6N mice was investigated by the isotopic antiglobulin technique. The late passage lines of fetal cells had undergone "spontaneous" neoplastic transformation in culture. The antisera were produced by syngeneic immunization with 5000 R x-irradiated tissues from C3H/HeN and C57BL/6N fetuses of 1 to 2 weeks gestation. Fetal antigens were found to be retained even after 5 years in cell lines derived from fetal tissues. In these lines no consistent change in fetal antigen expression could be correlated with neoplastic transformation. In contrast, the early passages of adult cells did not have detectable amounts of fetal antigens. However, fetal antigen(s) was demonstrated in cells of the late passages, and cells of both lines grew as sarcomas when next assayed 55 days later. In addition, fetal antigens were also present in established tumor lines in culture.

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