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. 1995 Jun;86(6):577-84.
doi: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.1995.tb02437.x.

Simultaneous expression of type IX collagen and an inhibin-related antigen in proliferative myoepithelial cells with pleomorphic adenoma of canine mammary glands

K Arai  1 , K Uehara, Y Nagai
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Simultaneous expression of type IX collagen and an inhibin-related antigen in proliferative myoepithelial cells with pleomorphic adenoma of canine mammary glands

K Arai et al. Jpn J Cancer Res. 1995 Jun.

Abstract

To identify an alcian blue-positive component expressed in the early stage of mammary mixed tumor and to pursue the possible involvement of a tumorigenic inducing factor, monoclonal antibodies to type IX collagen were generated and used to investigate the immunohistochemical kinetics of type IX collagen expression by the myoepithelial cell-derived chondrocyte-like cells during the development of chondrometaplasia. We also examined the expression of inhibin-related antigen using antibodies to a synthetic peptide spanning amino acids 1-30 of the inhibin alpha chain. At the earliest stage of chondrometaplasia, where myoepithelial cells began to proliferate inside the basement membrane, the cells expressed type IX collagen together with an inhibin-related antigen which was immunoreactive with the anti-inhibin peptide antibodies. The expression of the inhibin-related antigen was also demonstrated in normal embryonic chondrocytes and myoblasts, but was much less strong in mature chondrocytes and myotubes, strongly suggesting that the inhibin-related antigen is involved in the development of chondrocytes and myoblasts from undifferentiated mesenchymal cells as well as proliferating myoepithelial cells as a chondro-progenitor cell in the mammary mixed tumor. The pathophysiological significance of type IX collagen expression as a possible cell marker of the progenitor cell in myoepithelial cell-related chondrometaplasia is also discussed.

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