Figure 7.
Effect of anti-TM4 mAbs on invasion of collagen gels by PMA-treated HUVECs. HUVECs were seeded on the surface of collagen gels, in the presence or not of 20 ng/ml PMA alone (control) or in combination with 20μg/ml of anti–HLA-A,B W6/ 32, anti–VE-Cadherin TEA1/31, anti-β1 integrin TS2/16, anti– CD81/TAPA-1 5A6, or anti–CD151/PETA-3 LIA1/1 and VJ1/16 mAbs for 24 h. (a) Phase-contrast micrographs of migrating cells invading the collagen gels forming tube-like structures. (A) Unstimulated cells; (B) cells treated for 24 h with PMA alone; (C and D) cells treated for 24 h with PMA plus TEA1/31 or LIA1/1, respectively. (b ) Quantitation of migrating cells under the different conditions respect to control cells in the presence of PMA (100%). Experiments were performed by duplicate and represented as the arithmetic mean of the number of migrating cells ± 1 SD of four fields per well from two different experiments.