title: Gastrin significantly modifies the migratory abilities of experimental glioma cells.
abstract: Malignant astrocytic tumors are characterized by the pronounced and diffuse migration of tumor astrocytes into the brain parenchyma. The present study shows that gastrin is a brain neuropeptide that is able to significantly modulate astrocytic tumor migration at both invasion and motility levels. In the matter of invasion, gastrin severely reduces the in vitro invasive abilities of C6 rat glioma, 9L rat gliosarcoma, and U373 human glioma cells in a collagen matrix. In vitro, gastrin also markedly modifies the motility features in both C6 and U373 cells, at least partly through a decrease in the expression of the RhoA small GTPase, and so brings about some dramatic modifications to the organization in the actin cytoskeleton. The in vitro preincubation of C6 tumor cells with gastrin significantly increases the life spans of rats stereotactically implanted with these cells as compared with the survival periods of rats implanted with gastrin-untreated C6 cells. As suggested by our in vitro experiments, these effects, observed in vivo cannot relate to only the gastrin-induced decrease in tumor astrocyte migratory abilities. Indeed, gastrin also induces immunomodulatory effects, because we observed a marked gastrin-induced recruitment of lymphocytes into C6 gliomas and 9L gliosarcomas. These data all suggest that gastrin can act as an endogenous modulator of glioma progression.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Erasmus University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels.
authors.forename: Florence
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lefranc
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Camby
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Belot
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bruyneel
authors.forename: Carole
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chaboteaux
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Brotchi
authors.forename: Marcus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mareel
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Salmon
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kiss
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002465:Cell Movement / Q000187:drug effects; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000187:drug effects; D005755:Gastrins / Q000235:genetics / Q000494:pharmacology*; D005910:Glioma / Q000737:chemistry / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000032:analysis; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D043886:Receptor, Cholecystokinin A; D043887:Receptor, Cholecystokinin B; D011949:Receptors, Cholecystokinin / Q000032:analysis; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D020742:rhoA GTP-Binding Protein / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: C108188:CCK-C receptor; D005755:Gastrins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D043886:Receptor, Cholecystokinin A; D043887:Receptor, Cholecystokinin B; D011949:Receptors, Cholecystokinin; D020742:rhoA GTP-Binding Protein