摘要
Human amniotic basement membrane (HABM) model and agarose drop explant method were used to in-vestigate the effects of retinoic acid(RA) on the invasive-ness alld adhesiveness to the basement membrane, and the migration of a highly invassive human colorectal cancer cell line CCL229. Results showed that 5 ×106 MRA markedly reduced the in vitro invasiveness and adhesiveness to the HABM, and the migration of the CCL229 cells. In addi-tion, to elucidate the relation between expression of epider-mal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and the invasiveness of the colorectal carcinoma cells, two well-differentiated, but with different invasiveness colorectal cancer cell lines were compared at mRNA level for expressioll of EGFR by using EGFR cDNA probe labeled with digoxigenin (DIG). Expression of EGFR was showll to be markedly higher in the highly invassive CCL229 cells than that in the low in- vasive CX-1 cells. Furthermore, expression of EGFR in RA treated CCL229 cells gradually decreased with time,the level being the lowest on day 6 of the RA treatment.
