Teratocarcinomas and human embryology: pluripotent human EC cell lines. Review article

APMIS : Acta Pathologica, Microbiologica, Et Immunologica Scandinavica
P W Andrews

Abstract

The histogenesis of germ cell tumours (GCT) reflects the normal processes of gametogenesis, fertilisation and subsequent embryonic cell differentiation. Understanding the mechanisms that control the differentiation of embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells into a variety of embryonic and extraembryonic cell types is pertinent to understanding the progression of GCT. EC cells also provide a tool for analysing the mechanisms that control differentiation during embryonic development, and particularly the mechanisms that control differentiation along alternative cell line, NTERA2, into neurones and other cell types in response to agents such as retinoic acid, HMBA and the bone morphogenetic proteins. We have also compared the pluripotent NTERA2 EC cells with other human EC cell lines that exhibit a much reduced capacity for cell differentiation. A variety of genes are activated during NTERA2 differentiation. In particular we have identified a novel human member of the wnt family. This wnt gene is activated following retinoic acid induction of differentiation but is later down-regulated as the cells mature into neurones and other cell types. We have also observed expression of genes belonging to the Frizzled family, which is likely to inclu...Continue Reading

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