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Inhibitory effects of retinoic acid on invasiveness of human thyroid carcinoma cell lines in vitro.
J Endocrinol Invest
October 2009
Department of Endocrinology, Beijing Ji Shui Tan Hospital, the 4th Medical College of Peking University, Xi Chen Qu Xin Jie Kou Dong Jie 31, 100035 Beijing, China.
Background: The prognosis of patients with metastasized thyroid carcinoma is not optimistic, necessitating the search for new treatment options.
Aim: Beneficial effects of retinoic acid (RA) have been suggested in thyroid cancer differentiation and the present study was performed to investigate the anti-metastatic potential of RA in respect of important determinants of metastatic behavior in thyroid carcinoma, focusing on the role of invasion-associated proteins.
Materials And Methods: Differentiated thyroid carcinoma cell lines FTC- 133 and XTC.