Both MIA PaCa-2 cells and a cell line from another pancreatic carcinoma obtained from National Cancer Institute (NCI) are sensitive to asparaginase, a property not shared by several other human tumor cell lines tested.
Both MIA PaCa-2 cells and a cell line from another pancreatic carcinoma obtained from National Cancer Institute (NCI) are sensitive to asparaginase, a property not shared by several other human tumor cell lines tested.
The mean value of alpha 1-AT (+/- SEM) in cases with cancer of the pancreas was 486 (+/- 18) mg/100 ml, and it was significantly higher than the corresponding mean value in controls, which was 434 (+/- 13) mg/100 ml (p approximately 0.02).
Our results suggest that enhanced expression of EGF receptor in human pancreatic cancer can be associated with either structural or numerical alterations of chromosome 7.
Expression of proopiomelanocortin (POMC) was studied in a male patient with Cushing's syndrome and ectopic production of ACTH by a pancreatic carcinoma.
The prevalence of Kirsten (Ki)-ras gene mutations was studied in 105 paraffin-embedded tissues obtained from 40 patients with pancreatic cancer, 48 with bile duct carcinoma (19 distal, 6 middle, and 23 proximal), 16 with ampullary carcinoma and 1 with duodenal cancer, by in vitro amplification of target sequences by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
The prevalence of Kirsten (Ki)-ras gene mutations was studied in 105 paraffin-embedded tissues obtained from 40 patients with pancreatic cancer, 48 with bile duct carcinoma (19 distal, 6 middle, and 23 proximal), 16 with ampullary carcinoma and 1 with duodenal cancer, by in vitro amplification of target sequences by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
Well- to moderately-differentiated SW1990 and CAPAN-2 human pancreatic cancer cells were found to produce more high-Mr glycoprotein (HMG) than less-differentiated MIA PaCa-2 and PANC-1 cells.
These results indicate that the AC inhibitor in the pancreatic cancer extract is histone H1b or H1d and histones H2A, H2B and H3 also have an AC inhibitory activity.
These results indicate that the AC inhibitor in the pancreatic cancer extract is histone H1b or H1d and histones H2A, H2B and H3 also have an AC inhibitory activity.
We have examined the expression of the p53 and Rb-1 tumor-suppressor genes in seven human pancreatic carcinoma cell lines and 10 primary pancreatic carcinomas.
Overexpression of the epidermal growth factor receptor in human pancreatic cancer is associated with concomitant increases in the levels of epidermal growth factor and transforming growth factor alpha.