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Here we report on an experimental system for generating TAM in vitro by culturing human MO and MO-derived macrophages (MAC) within 3-dimensional multicellular tumor spheroids (MCS). MO as well as MO-derived MAC migrate into tumor spheroids and spread throughout the entire spheroid within 16 hr. In contrast, fibroblast-spheroids were not infiltrated. The regular expression of MAC maturation-associated antigens on infiltrating MO was suppressed within MCS of the undifferentiated bladder carcinoma line J82 with regard to carboxypeptidase M (CPM), MAX.3 antigen and CD105. However, MAC within spheroids of highly differentiated papillary RT4 cells failed only the single antigen CD51, whereas MAC expressed the complete maturation-associated phenotype within non-tumorigenic HCV29 spheroids. Interestingly, the suppressive effect of J82 carcinoma cells could only be observed in 3-dimensional but not in monolayer cultures. The J82-MCS induced suppression of CPM and MAX.3 expression was only seen to be operative on infiltrating blood MO: MO first differentiated for 2 days and subsequently co-cultured with J82-MCS showed normal expression of MAX.3 and CPM within the spheroid. Besides the modula

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Author

Abdo Konur; Marina Kreutz; Ruth Knüchel; Stefan W. Krause; Reinhard Andreesen

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley; Research Square; Test accounts (ISSN 0020-7136)

Published

1996

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)