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Department of Internal Medicine, Hôpital St. Antoine, Paris [O. D.], and Institut de Recherches Scientifiques sur le Cancer, ER 278-CNRS, Laboratoire D'Immunopathologie, 7 rue Guy Mocquet, Boite Postale No. 8, 94802 Villejuif [O. D., Y. R., M. F. P.], France
The inadequate nature of the microenvironment is one of several factors considered in the failure of tumor engraftment in athymic mice; in the present work, we have tried to more adequately reconstitute it by injecting tumor cells together with fibroblasts.
We have demonstrated that the s.c. co-inoculation of fibroblasts with different kinds of tumor cells of animal origin [rat rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) 9-4/0, rat hepato-carcinoma FAO] or human origin (colonic adenocarcinoma HT29, Ewing's sarcoma pleural metastasis EW-S1) is necessary for tumor take and growth when the number of tumor cells alone is below the tumorigenic dose. We have shown that the s.c. coinoculation of 106 fibroblasts and 102 RMS 9-4/0 tumor cells induced a tumor take in all the recipient mice, while 102 tumor cells alone never gave any tumor. With a tumorigenic number of RMS 9-4/0 tumor cells (104), addition of 106 fibroblasts decreased the delay between cell injection and tumor appearance, thereby increasing tumor take and growth rate. These results were observed not only in nude animals (mice and rats) used as recipient animals but also in normal WAG rats receiving the syngeneic RMS 9-4/0 tumor cells, and they were independent of the nature or origin of the different fibroblasts cells.
This helper effect has also been observed in the normal WAG rats. I.v. injection of tumor cells from a poorly metastatic 9-4/8 subline, derived from the RMS 9-4/0 line and mixed with 106 fibroblasts, gave a high number of lung colonies. Addition of 106 irradiated 9-4/8 tumor cells instead of fibroblasts did not increase the lung colonizing potential.
Fibroblast-conditioned medium mixed with tumor cells instead of fibroblasts also enhanced tumor take and size but to a lesser extent than did the fibroblasts themselves.
Only endothelial cells cultured from porcine aorta had a similar helper effect among the cells tested.
It is argued in the discussion that the proliferating state of cultivated fibroblasts is a determinant factor conferring upon them the ability to promote tumor cell growth, while fibroblasts very numerous at the implantation site but quiescent might not be efficient in cooperation. Changes in fibroblast morphology and physiology may be necessary in order for tumor cells to express their tumorigenicity.
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Received 8/ 2/85. Revised 1/ 6/86. Revised 2/21/86. Accepted 3/17/86.
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