PMID: 2501028Aug 15, 1989Paper

Detection of Ki-ras messenger RNA in normal and chemically transformed hamster oral keratinocytes

Cancer Research
D T WongG Shklar

Abstract

The cheek pouch of the Syrian hamster is an excellent model for the experimental study of oral carcinogenesis. The carcinogenic chemical 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene consistently produces epidermoid carcinomas in the cheek pouch of the Syrian hamster, giving rise to characteristic histopathological lesions in a time-dependent manner. We now present experimental evidence that c-Ki-ras mRNA can be detected in all 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene-induced tumors examined (in vivo and in vitro) in this experimental oral cancer model while no detectable c-Ki-ras mRNA can be found in the normal hamster cheek pouch epithelium. Cellular synchronization experiments using a cell line (hamster cheek pouch carcinoma cell line 1) derived from one of these 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene-induced hamster oral tumors revealed that the c-Ki-ras protooncogene is expressed during the G1 phase of the cell cycle (proliferation dependent). Serum starvation and RNA synthesis inhibition experiments using hamster cheek pouch carcinoma cell line 1 cells suggest that the c-Ki-ras protooncogene is indeed quiescent in the normal hamster cheek pouch epithelium and that failure to detect its mRNA is not related to the slower proliferation of the normal epithel...Continue Reading

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