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Query: KEGG:D02003 (NBT)
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In the presence of vitamin A, NBT II cells, derived from a carcinoma of rat bladder, grew as a monolayer with diminished piling up. Keratinization, which normally appeared within stratified cells in postconfluent cultures, was inhibited. A "wounding" technique suitable for quantitative analysis of cell migration was developed for confluent cultures grown on glass coverslips. Vitamin A treatment enhanced the migration of cells from the wound edge. In dense postconfluent monolayer cultures, vitamin A treatment maintained a higher percentage of cells in DNA synthesis than in the control cultures, as determined by 3H-TdR uptake and autoradiography. In contrast, in sparse cultures vitamin A did not stimulate DNA synthesis or increase the mitotic index. This stimulatory effect, limited to dense cultures, may be attributable to vitamin A causing viable cells to be shed into the medium, thereby maintaining the monolayer just at confluence. Thus vitamin A inhibits squamous cell differentiation, enhances migration, and maintains the culture in the proliferative phase. In a different system of high cell density, NBT II aggregates cultured in a combined matrix of chick plasma clot and collagen-coated sponge, vitamin A also enhanced the migration of cells. These results may explain, in part, the failure of vitamin A to inhibit completely the growth of some established tumors.
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PMID:The effect of vitamin A on the migration and DNA synthesis of rat bladder tumor cell line NBT II in culture. 44 81

A 74 year-old woman, who had been diagnosed as AML (M3) in poor condition, was treated with Retinol Palmitate (Chocola-A, 150,000 unit/m2 per os, after informed consent. An increase of white blood cells (neutrophil) counts was observed after 7 days. After 4 weeks, WBC counts were increased to 20,700/microliters (neutrophil counts 6,400/microliters) Maturation tendency of leukemic cells was also proved in the bone marrow. In vitro studies showed that morphological differentiation was recognizable in cultured leukemic cells treated with 10(-6)M all-trans retinoic acid after 6 days, but not in controls. Responses in the NBT reduction test were slightly less than in the clinical study. The administration of Retinol Palmitate may be a new regimen to treat AML (M3) in aged patients in poor condition.
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PMID:[Differentiating effect of oral administration of retinol palmitate (Chocola-A) for an aged AML (M3) with severe complications]. 146 82

The terminal differentiation, keratinization, of a rat bladder tumor cell line, NBT II, occurred in multicellular aggregates. After aggregation, these cells did not undergo a round of mitosis before keratinization. 5-Bromodeoxyuridine added to the monolayer cell culture 2 days before aggregation completely prevented this differentiation; it was ineffective when added at the time of cell aggregation. Vitamin A prevented the keratinization of NBT II cells in aggregates but did not inhibit aggregate formation; it enhanced the number of cells engaged in DNA synthesis. This model appears to be very useful for analyzing the mechanisms of terminal differentiation and its modulation by vitamin A in tumor cells.
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PMID:Keratinization and the effect of vitamin A in aggregates of a squamous carcinoma cell line NBT II. 615 20