title: In vitro influence of gastrin, oestradiol and gonadotropin-releasing hormone on HCT-15 and LoVo human colorectal neoplastic cell proliferation.
abstract: We set up in vitro several human colorectal neoplastic cell lines that we labelled "hormone-sensitive" (HS) in comparison to the original cell lines which appeared to be rather "hormone-insensitive" (HI). We used LoVo and HCT-15 human colorectal neoplastic cell lines and studied the influence of 17 beta-oestradiol (E2), gastrin and two gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogues, HRF and buserelin, on the proliferation of the HS and HI variants of the LoVo and HCT-15 cell lines. Cell proliferation was evaluated by a colorimetric assay, the MTT test. Our results show that E2, gastrin, HRF and buserelin did not induce a significant stimulatory influence on the HI variants of the LoVo and HCT-15 cells, i.e. the cells that were cultured in a hormone-free 10% FCS-supplemented medium. In sharp contrast, the colorectal cells cultured for 30 passages in an E2 and/or gastrin + 1% FCS-supplemented medium showed a marked tropic response to E2, gastrin, HRF and buserelin. However, the HS variants of the HCT-15 cells appeared less sensitive to the two GnRH analogues than did the HS variants of the LoVo cells.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Histology, Faculty of Medicine, Free University of Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kiss
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Salmon
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Pauwels
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gras
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Danguy
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Etievant
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Pasteels
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Martinez
mesh_terms: D002452:Cell Count / Q000187:drug effects; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D003124:Colorimetry; D004958:Estradiol / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005755:Gastrins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007987:Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D013268:Stimulation, Chemical; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D005755:Gastrins; D007987:Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone; D004958:Estradiol