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  • Title: Colony-stimulating factor 1 (CSF-1) is involved in an autocrine growth control of rat myogenic cells.
    Author: Borycki AG, Smadja F, Stanley R, Leibovitch SA.
    Journal: Exp Cell Res; 1995 May; 218(1):213-22. PubMed ID: 7737360.
    Abstract:
    Colony stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1) and the CSF-1 receptor (the c-fms proto-oncogene product) are expressed during the proliferation of the L6 alpha 1 rat myogenic cell line and both are down-regulated during the differentiation to myotubes. Biologically active CSF-1 was shown to be secreted into the culture medium by L6 alpha 1 myoblasts and while they could not bind CSF-1, evidence was obtained for cell surface receptor-CSF-1 complexes. It was not possible to block the L6 alpha 1 proliferation by incubation with anti-CSF-1 antiserum or suramin. However, in L6 alpha 1 myoblasts that were stably transfected with an inducible anti-fms antisense construct, both c-fms protein expression and cell proliferation were more rapidly inhibited under induction and differentiation conditions than parental cells. Furthermore, under these conditions, the c-fms antisense transfected cells also entered myogenic differentiation more rapidly. These results suggest that autocrine regulation by CSF-1 that is intracellular may play a role in the proliferation of muscle cells and that its down-regulation leads to, and may be an obligatory step in, myogenesis.
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