[Molecular mechanisms of tumorgenesis and metastasis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell sublines].

Abstract

There were expression of EBV and different genetic changes in the SUNE-1 and its three sublines. It is suggesting that the different biological character tumorgenesis and metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell sublines may be due to genetic changes; and EBV infection may play an important role in keeping the malignant phenotypic of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.