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Secretion of a fibronectin-like substance from head and neck carcinomas
M Sakumoto1, M Tsukuda, I Mochimatsu
1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Yokohama City University, School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.
Abstract:
The secretion of a fibronectin-like substance in culture supernatants of cell lines of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas was observed. Culture supernatants of some tumor cells had a high cell-attachment activity. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay with an antifibronectin antibody showed that the supernatant with cell attachment activity contained fibronectin. Furthermore, the cell attachment activity was clearly inhibited by the addition of a monoclonal antibody to fibronectin. These findings strongly suggest that the fibronectin produced by cancer cells is one of the potent mediators of the cell attachment.
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