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It has also been documented that prostate epithelial cells exhibited squamous metaplastic phenotype during vitamin A deficiency [ 7 ] , and prostate cell carcinogenesis could be prevented by retinoic acid (RA) and its analogs in vitro [ 8 9 10 ] . These findings suggest that retinoid-dependent cellular events were involved in tumorigenic transformation of prostate epithelial cells.
It was discovered, by analyzing multiple foci occurring simultaneously within individual tumors, that chromosome 18p events occur at a significant frequency (56%) early in the tumorigenic process, making LOH at chromosome 18p one of the most common known events in DCIS tumors.
Mutations in the IL-6 promoter region may play a role in the tumorigenic effects of constitutive IL-6 expression in prostatic carcinoma cells [ 33 ] . Such polymorphisms have been described for the IL-6 receptor in Kaposi's sarcoma, and are believed to play a role in IL-6-mediated progression of this type of cancer [ 32 ] .
The parental TM10 outgrowth is a moderately tumorigenic outgrowth line in vivo (time for 50% of the transplants to produce tumors, 11 months) that is karyotypically diploid and maintains wild type p53 expression.
The NRP-154 cells are transformed, grow in the absence of exogenous growth factors, and are tumorigenic [ 23 24 25 26 27 ] . These lines come from epithelial cells.