Neoplastic epithelium derived from a spontaneous canine prostatic adenocarcinoma has been maintained and grown in cell culture and as xenografts in athymic mice. An epithelial cell line (CPA 1) has been isolated from primary cultures and has been partially characterized in vitro. The growth of this cell line was not modified by either androgens or estrogens, and high-affinity receptors for these steroids could not be demonstrated in these cells. Xenografts were serially transplantable, with growth being similar in both sexes. Receptors for androgens and estrogens could not be detected in homogenates of xenografts or primary tumor. The histological appearances of serially transplanted tumors, and of xenografts generated by inoculation of the cell line (CPA 1) and several cloned substrains, were very similar to that of the primary tumor and were judged to be well differentiated. The characteristics of this neoplastic cell type have been compared with those of normal prostatic epithelium.
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