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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 140, 85-94, Copyright © 1992 by American Society for Investigative Pathology

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The effects of continuous exposure to epidermal growth factor on the spontaneous transformation of cultured rat liver epithelial cells

MS Tsao and XY Zhang
Department of Pathology, Montreal General Hospital, Quebec, Canada.

A long-term continuous exposure to epidermal growth factor (EGF) enhanced the tumorigenicity of spontaneously transformed cells arising in a clonal population of normal cultured rat liver epithelial cells propagated in a selective growth condition. Lengthy EGF exposure also induced the expression of several phenotypes that differed from the phenotypes of rat liver epithelial cells transformed spontaneously in the absence of EGF. Epidermal growth factor treatment caused consistently an enhancement of the constitutive mRNA expression of transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-alpha), but not of the EGF receptor and transforming growth factor-beta. The overexpression of TGF- alpha persisted in cell lines derived from tumors formed by the EGF- treated transformed cells. These tumors also exhibited high metastatic incidence and ductal cell differentiation. In contrast, untreated spontaneously transformed cells formed non-metastatic tumors with hepatocellular differentiation. These results suggest that long-term, continuous exposure to EGF/TGF-alpha may modulate the phenotypic expressions of neoplastic transformation.


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