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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 142, 773-782, Copyright © 1993 by American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Extracellular matrix components induce endocrine differentiation in vitro in NCI-H716 cells

AP de Bruine, WN Dinjens, EP van der Linden, MM Pijls, PT Moerkerk and FT Bosman
Department of Pathology, University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Endocrine cells occur in +/- 30% of colorectal adenocarcinomas. The significance of this phenomenon in terms of tumor behavior is still controversial. Endocrine differentiation in colorectal cancer cell lines is almost confined to tumor xenografts in vivo, suggesting that endocrine differentiation might be regulated by epithelial-stromal interactions. This hypothesis was studied in the cecal adenocarcinoma- derived cell line NCI-H716 by comparing the expression of chromogranin A protein and messenger RNA in vivo and in vitro and by attempts to induce differentiation in vitro. We found that chromogranin A expression, which was strongest in vivo, could be significantly enhanced in vitro by culturing tumor cells in the presence of native extracellular matrix, on fibroblast feeder layers, and in a defined medium with basic fibroblast growth factor. The results suggest that the extracellular matrix induces endocrine differentiation through factors (e.g., basic fibroblast-growth factor) that may be produced by stromal cells and after secretion bind to the extracellular matrix.

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