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2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Effect of estrogen on prostate development : Study on estrogen receptor and estrogen receptor knock out mouse

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13671685
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Urology
Research InstitutionMie University (2002)
Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute (2001)

Principal Investigator

SUGIMURA Yoshiiki  Mie University Faculty of Medicine Professor, 医学部, 教授 (90179151)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) TATEMATSU Masae  Aichi Cancer Center, Research Institute, Vice Director Chief of Dept of Oncological Pathology, 研究所, 副所長 (70117836)
Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2002
Keywordsprostate / microdissection / prostate duct / estrogen / esterogen recetor / エストロゲン受容体ノックアウトマウス
Research Abstract

Ventral and dorsal-lateral prostates of adult mice treated neonatally with diethylstilbestrol (DBS), dihydrotestosterone (DHT), alone or in combination were microdissected into two-dimensional arrays to visualize ductal branching architecture. Neonatal exposure to DES markedly suppressed and modified prostatic ductal branching patterns in adulthood. This long-term effect on prostatic ductal architecture was not prevented by co-administration of DHT. Treatment with DES alone or in combination with DHT reduced the number of ductal tips and branch points in ventral and dorsal-lateral prostates and reduced the number of main ducts in the dorsal-lateral prostate. The unique effect of neonatal DES treatment was the development of abnormal epithelial nodules in the dorsal-lateral prostate, which contained a distinctly non-prostatic epithelium organized into small back to back glands having a cribriform histopathology. Immunohistochemical analysis demonstrated in newborn mouse the presence of estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) in a subset of prostatic stromal cells near the urethra and estrogen receptor beta (ERβ) in both prostatic stromal and epithelial cells. After 5 days of DES treatment ERα immunostaining was detected in both prostatic stromal and epithelial cells. Thus, neonatal treatment with DES perturbed the pattern of ductal branching in certain lobes of the mouse prostate and altered epithelial differentiation presumably via estrogen receptor signaling.

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All Publications (13 results)

  • [Publications] Ishii K. et al.: "Aminopeptidase N regulated by zinc in human prostate participates in tumor cell invasion"Int J Cancer. 92. 49-54 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Ishii K. et al.: "Extract from Serenoa repens suppresses the invasion activity of human urological cancer cells by inhibiting urokinase-type plasminogen activator"Biol Pharm Bull. 24. 188-190 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Iguchi K. et al.: "High-level expression of zinc transporter-2 in the rat lateral and dorsal prostate"J Andro. 23. 819-824 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Uchida K et al.: "Proprotein convertases regulate activity of prostate epithelial cell differentiation markers and are modulated in human prostate cancer cells"J cell Biochem. 88. 394-399 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Takahashi S. et al.: "Down-regulation of Lsm1 is involved in human prostate cancer progression"Br J cancer. 86. 1589-1593 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Takahashi S. et al.: "Down-regulation of human X-box binding protein 1 (hXBP-1) expression correlates with tumor progression in human prostate cancers"Prostate. 50. 103-108 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Uchida K, Chaudhary LR, Sugimura Y, Adkisson HD, Hruska KA: "Proprotein convertases regulate activity of prostate epithelial cell differentiation markers and are modulated in human prostate cancer cells"J Cell Biochem. 88(2). 394-399 (2003)

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  • [Publications] Iguchi K, Usui S, Inoue T, Sugimura Y, Tatematsu M, Hirano K.: "High-level expression of zinc transporter-2 in the rat lateral and dorsal prostate"J Androl. 23(6). 819-824 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Takahashi S, Suzuki S, Inaguma S, Cho YM, Ikeda Y, Hayashi N, Inoue T, Sugimura Y, Noshiyama N, Fujita T, Ushijima T, Shirai T.: "Down-regulation of Lsm1 is involved in human prostate cancer progression"Br J Cancer. 86(6). 940-946 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Takahashi S, Suzuki S, Inaguma S, Ikeda Y, Cho YM, Nishiyama N, Fujita T, Inoue T, Hioki T, Sugimura Y, Ushijima T, Shirai T.: "Down-regulation of human X-box binding protein 1 (hXBP-1) expression correlates with tumor progression in human prostate cancers"Prostate. 50(3). 154-161 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Ishii K, Usui S, Yamamoto H, Sugimura Y, Tatematsu M, Hirano K.: "Decreases of metallothionein and aminopeptidase N in renal cancer tissues"J Biochem. 129(2). 253-258 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Ishii K, Usui S, Sugimura Y, Yamamoto H, Yoshikawa K, Hirano K.: "Inhibition of aminopeptidase N (AP-N) and urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) by zinc suppresses the invasion activity in human urological cancer cells"Biol Pharm Bull. 24(3). 226-230 (2001)

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  • [Publications] Ishii K, Usui S, Sugimura Y, Yoshida S, Hioki T, Tatematsu M, Yamamoto H, Hirano K.: "Aminopeptidase N regulated by zinc in human prostate participates in tumor cell invasion"Int J Cancer. 92(1). 49-54 (2001)

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