title: Role of testosterone, estradiol, and insulin in diet- and exercise-induced reductions in serum-stimulated prostate cancer cell growth in vitro.
abstract: Prostate cancer risk is associated with a high-fat diet and a sedentary lifestyle. Placing men on a low-fat diet-and-exercise intervention reduces serum hormones, including estradiol, insulin, and free testosterone, that may play a role in prostate cancer growth. Eight men participated in a low-fat diet-and-exercise program for a mean of 14.2 yr, and LNCaP cell growth in culture was measured in medium supplemented with 10% of each subject's serum as well as with testosterone, estradiol, and insulin added singly or in combination. These results were compared in the fetal bovine serum (FBS)-stimulated growth and cell growth in serum obtained from a control group of 14 overweight men. In separate tissue culture experiments, LNCaP and PC-3 cell growth was also measured in response to the addition of testosterone, estradiol, or insulin to steroid-stripped FBS. LNCaP cell growth in medium with subject serum was 40% less than in FBS-stimulated medium and 49% less than in medium with serum from control, overweight men. Addition of testosterone, estradiol, and insulin to serum from diet-and-exercise subjects significantly stimulated LNCaP cell growth in vitro but accounted for only about half of the difference between the control and diet-and-exercise subjects. Thus other serum changes must also account for the significant reduction in LNCaP cell growth observed using medium with serum from the diet-and-exercise subjects in the cell culture assay.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiological Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
authors.forename: Christopher N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Tymchuk
authors.forename: R James
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Barnard
authors.forename: Tung H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Ngo
authors.forename: William J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Aronson
mesh_terms: D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D004032:Diet; D004958:Estradiol / Q000494:pharmacology*; D015444:Exercise; D006801:Humans; D007328:Insulin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D013739:Testosterone / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D007328:Insulin; D013739:Testosterone; D004958:Estradiol