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E Bey

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Carcinoma of the esophagus in Africans: establishment of a continuously growing cell line from a tumor specimen.

Biopsy material, from a patient with an esophageal carcinoma of a type occurring relatively frequently in Africans in some regions of Southern Africa, has been adapted to cell culture conditions and has developed into a continuously growing tumor cell line. The cells have a squamous pattern of growth which they maintain, without piling up, even in heavily confluent cultures.

Adenoviruses, Simian↗

Adaptation of cells derived from human malignant tumours to growth in vitro.

Forty-five human malignant tumour specimens were cultivated in vitro in an attempt to determine the necessary conditions for tumour cell maintenance and to establish permanently-growing cell lines. Continuously-growing cultures were derived from five tumours, including carcinomas of the oesophagus and colon, a hepatoma, a mesothelioma and a retroperitoneal sarcoma. The carcinoma of the oesophagus and the hepatoma, which have adapted fully to in vitro conditions, can be regarded as established cell lines.

Adaptation, Physiological↗

Chromosome analyses of two recently established human tumour cell lines derived from a carcinoma of the oesophagus and a primary liver tumour.

An oesophageal carcinoma cell line was karyotyped at passages 8,48,64 and 88. It showed a persistent loss of D group chromosomes and subtelocentric, acrocentric, dicentric and other markers were frequently present. During 80 passages the modal number declined from 60,5 to 54,09. The chromosome pattern of a hepatoma cell line was studied at passages 15/17 and 28. It showed a loss of D and G group chromosomes and the presence of various markers including a D/G fusion.

Carcinoma, Hepatocellular↗

Cytotoxic effects of some mineral dusts on Syrian hamster peritoneal macrophages.

Hamster peritoneal macrophages were grown in cell culture and their response to various conditions was examined. The cultures responded favorably to high concentrations of serum and to medium which had been preconditioned by contact with tumor cells. After 2-3 days of adaptation, they entered into a period of stability which lasted from the 4th to the 9th day. Macrophage cultures in this stable phase were treated with various samples of mineral dusts and their response determined by counting the number of viable macrophages/cm(2) at intervals over a period of 72 hr. Crystalline silica Snowit was found to be nontoxic. Amorphous silica Fransil caused a characteristic cytotoxic effect and a rapid decline in cell population at doses less than 150 microg/5 x 10(5) cells. Of the three different kinds of asbestos used, chrysotile was toxic and amosite and crocidolite nontoxic at equivalent concentrations. A comparison of two preparations of chrysotile which differed in surface area showed that weight rather than surface area determines toxicity. Pretreatment of chrysotile with tryptose phosphate broth under drastic conditions accelerated but did not increase the final intensity of the cytotoxic effect.

Animals↗