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Three cell lines of squamous-cell carcinoma and 3 of large-cell carcinoma origin were investigated for the expression of differentiation markers and functional parameters (proliferation, morphology, cornified envelope formation, involucrin staining, transglutaminase activity, adhesiveness and migration) under normal cell culture conditions and after treatment with the tumor promoter phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA). Although all original tumors had been described as poorly differentiated by histological grading, we found significant heterogeneity in the expression of differentiation markers in cell culture. A systematic grading of the cell lines became possible only after PMA stimulation. PMA generally increased expression of differentiation markers in cell lines of comparably low grades of differentiation, as indicated by dose-dependent inhibition of proliferation and cloning efficiency, induction of squamous markers, and decreased adhesiveness and cell motility. In contrast, cell lines of apparently higher differentiation by these criteria showed little response to PMA. The results presented show that the assessment of differentiation capacity by comparison of differentiation markers under normal cell culture and PMA-stimulated conditions in established NSCLC cell lines allows for a refined cell culture grading, which might advance the classification and characterization of such cell lines which, otherwise, appear to be very heterogeneous. It may also help to correlate cellular functions with various states of differentiation in vitro.
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