摘要篇首： The most frequent cause of death of patients with osteosarcoma is the metastasis of tumour cells. In spite of successful control of the primary tumour, the mortality of the patients due to metastatic spread is more than 30% within 5 years.1 Recent studies about osteosarcoma metastatic mechanism are based on osteosarcoma matrilineal cell lines.2 For further studies of metastatic mechanism of osteosarcoma the establishment of a better metastatic experimental model of osteosarcoma is needed. We isolated and established two cell sublines, with high and low metastatic potentials, respectively, derived from human osteosarcoma MG-63 cell line by cloning in vitro and transplantation in vivo, then analysed and identified their biological characteristics.