A novel method to culture laryngeal human papillomavirus-positive epithelial cells produces papilloma-type cytology on collagen rafts.
Eur J Cancer
; 34(7): 1111-6, 1998 Jun.
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| ID: mdl-9849463
ABSTRACT
A novel method to culture human papillomavirus (HPV) positive laryngeal epithelial cells is described. Biopsies of laryngeal papillomas and of HPV-positive laryngeal mucosa were first cultured as a monolayer in which irradiated laryngeal fibroblasts originally derived from a papilloma (PPLF-XR) patient served as feeder cells. When these fourth or fifth passage epithelial cells were transferred to allow growth on an organotypic growth base (collagen raft containing unirradiated PPLF), they grew as a multilayer. This layer showed features typical of HPV infection with koilocytosis, parakeratosis, and isolated dyskeratotic cells. Based on in situ hybridisation, the original tumour sections and epithelial cells from each monolayer passage, as well as the collagen raft sections, contained HPV DNA. Our results show that HPV-infected epithelial cells can be maintained during passages in monolayer culture and that PPLF can support the growth of these cells well. The monolayer cell culture and the collagen raft, the latter providing differentiation-promoting effects, appears to facilitate maintenance of the infected cells and of the viral genome.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Papillomaviridae
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Laryngeal Neoplasms
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Cell Culture Techniques
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Papillomavirus Infections
Limits:
Animals
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Eur J Cancer
Year:
1998
Document type:
Article