Inhibitory effect of IL‐6‐induced neuroendocrine cells on prostate cancer cell proliferation
- 22 April 2004
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in The Prostate
- Vol. 61 (3) , 253-259
- https://doi.org/10.1002/pros.20106
Abstract
BACKGROUND The role of increased neuroendocrine (NE) differentiation in prostate cancer (PCA) is not well understood. Long‐term exposure of the prostate cancer cell line LNCaP to high concentrations of the cytokine interleukin‐6 (IL‐6) results in permanent transdifferentiation of these cells into a NE phenotype. In this study, we evaluated the effect of IL‐6‐induced NE cells on the growth of the PCA cell lines LNCaP, PC‐3, and DU‐145 in vitro. RESULTS Co‐culture of NE cells with PCA cells significantly inhibited DNA synthesis in all three PCA cell lines by 30–90% compared to controls. NE cell co‐culture resulted in an increased percentage of PCA cells arrested in the S‐phase of cell cycle and PCA cell apoptosis. CONCLUSIONS Our results imply that NE cells suppress the proliferation of surrounding PCA cells by release of inhibitory factors.Keywords
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