Pulmonary metastasis after bleomycin-induced endothelial injury and repair
Injury to the endothelial barrier is thought to enhance the localization and metastasis of circulating tumor cells. This hypothesis was tested by inducing pulmonary endothelial injury in C57bl/6 mice by injecting a single IV dose of bleomycine (120 mg/kg). After 5 days, severe endothelial injury was demonstrated by morphology and by increased levels of protein in lung lavage fluid. When /sup 131/I-iododeoxyuridine labeled syngeneic fibrosarcoma cells were injected IV at this time, a 9 fold increase in their localization was detected 24 hrs later in bleomycin-treated lungs compared to saline controls. By EM, tumor cells were observed at sites of denuded vascular basement membrane. There was also a significant increase in subsequent gross metastases and percentage of lung occupied by tumor in the bleomycin group. Animals examined 10 days after bleomycin showed less endothelial damage and a smaller increase in tumor cell localization and metastases. At 21 days, when endothelial structure and alveolar protein levels had returned to normal, and at 6 weeks, when there was focal fibrosis, no increase in tumor cell localization or metastases was found. It is concluded that damage to the pulmonary endothelium is a key factor in enhancing the trapping of circulating tumor cells and increasing metastatic tumor growth.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg
- OSTI ID:
- 5006848
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8604222-; TRN: 86-037026
- Journal Information:
- Fed. Proc., Fed. Am. Soc. Exp. Biol.; (United States), Vol. 45:3; Conference: 70. annual meeting of the Federation of American Society for Experimental Biology, St. Louis, MO, USA, 13 Apr 1986
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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