Murine hepatocytes, isolated by an in situ collagenase-perfusion technique and cultured in Petri dishes, were shown to form rosettes with liver-metastasizing syngeneic tumor cells. Pretreatment of the tumor cells with neuraminidase generally increased the binding, whereas pretreatment of the liver cells with neuraminidase abolished the binding completely. The tumor-cell binding may be mediated by the previously described lectin-like receptor of hepatocytes that also was sensitive to neuraminidase treatment and that bound desialylated cells better than normal cells. Anti-H-2 sera could efficiently inhibit the rosette formation of metastatic tumor cells with the hepatocytes, which points to a possible role of H-2 molecules in this interaction of neoplastic and normal cells.
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April 01 1980
Hepatocyte-tumor cell interaction in vitro. I. Conditions for rosette formation and inhibition by anti-H-2 antibody.
V Schirrmacher
R Cheingsong-Popov
H Arnheiter
Online ISSN: 1540-9538
Print ISSN: 0022-1007
J Exp Med (1980) 151 (4): 984–989.
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V Schirrmacher, R Cheingsong-Popov, H Arnheiter; Hepatocyte-tumor cell interaction in vitro. I. Conditions for rosette formation and inhibition by anti-H-2 antibody.. J Exp Med 1 April 1980; 151 (4): 984–989. doi: https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.151.4.984
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