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Temperature-dependent metastasis of the Lucke renal carcinoma and its significance for studies on mechanisms of metastasis

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Metastasis is temperature dependent in the renal adenocarcinoma of the North American leopard frog, Rana pipiens. Widespread, multiple, metastatic colonies occur in tumor-bearing frogs kept at 28°C for 50 days while tumor-bearing frogs kept at 7°C for 98 days or more have either no secondary deposits or they have only an occasional small metastatic nodule. An attractive aspect of the frog tumor is that invasion and metastasis can be permitted or inhibited by the manipulation of temperature alone-no exogenous chemicals or drugs are required for the effect. Because of this, biological variables which reproducibly and specifically associate with metastasis permissive conditions when ambient temperature is cycled between permissive and inhibitory values are strong candidates for being causal elements in the multistep process leading to metastasis.

Intravascularly injected labelled renal tumor cells reached all organs studied in as little as 15 minutes at both metastasis restrictive and permissive temperature. The results with tumor cell inoculation dispose of the possibility that failure of metastasis in chilled animals is due to cold-induced changes in blood flow. Histologically typical metastatic colonies developed in frogs, kept at the permissive temperature, after injection with disaggregated tumor cells which were previously cryopreserved.

Frog tumors elaborate type I collagenase in a temperature dependent manner. Type IV collagenase has been demonstrated as well. Tumor cell detachment in vitro, assembly and disassembly of tumor cell cytoplasmic microtubules, and invasion in vitro, are all temperature dependent.

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McKinnell, R.G., Tarin, D. Temperature-dependent metastasis of the Lucke renal carcinoma and its significance for studies on mechanisms of metastasis. Cancer Metast Rev 3, 373–386 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00051461

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