Presence and significance of oxytocin receptors in human neuroblastomas and glial tumors

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 695-700

  Cassoni, Paola ^a   Sapino, Anna ^a   Stella, Anna ^a   Fortunati, Nicoletta ^a   Bussolati, Gianni ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Department of Biomedical Sciences ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CYCLIC AMP; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROBLASTOMA; OXYTOCIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031827196     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19980831)77:5<695::AID-IJC6>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. BUSSOLATI, G., CASSONI, P., GHISOLFI, G., NEGRO, F. and SAPINO, A., Immunolocation and gene expression of oxytocin receptors in carcinomas and non-neoplastic tissues of the breast Amer. J. Pathol., 148, 1895-1903 (1996).
2. CASSONI, P., SAPINO, A., FORTUNATI, N., MUNARON. L., CHINI, B. and BUSSOLATI, G., Oxytocin inhibits the proliferation of MDA-MB231 human breast-cancer cells via cAMP and PKA. Int. J. Cancer, 72, 340-344 (1997).
3. CASSONI, P., SAPINO, A., NEGRO, F. and BUSSOLATI, G., Oxytocin inhibits proliferation of human breast-cancer cell lines. Virchows Arch., 425, 467-472 (1994).
4. CASSONI, P., SAPINO, A., PAPOTTI, M. and BUSSOLATI, G., Oxytocin and oxytocin-analogue F314 inhibit cell proliferation and tumor growth of rat and mouse mammary carcinomas. Int. J. Cancer, 66, 817-820 (1996).
5. CHOMCZYNSKI, P. and SACCHI, N., Single-step method of RNA isolation by acid-guanidinium-thiocyanate-PhOH-chlorophorm extraction. Anal. Biochem., 162, 156-159 (1987).
6. DI SCALA-GUENOT, D. and STROSSER, M.T., Oxytocin receptors on cultured astroglial cells: kinetic and pharmacological characterization of oxytocin binding sites on intact hypothalamic and hippocampic cells from foetal rat brain. Biochem. J 284, 491-497 (1992).
7. DI SCALA-GUENOT, D. and STROSSER, M.T., Down-regulation of the oxytocin receptors on cultured astroglial cells. Amer. J. Physiol., 268 c413-c418 (l995a).
8. DI SCALA-GUENOT, D. and STROSSER, M.T., Neurone-astrocyte interaction. In: R. Ivell and J.A. Russell (eds.). Advances in experimental medicine and biology, Vol. 385, pp. 349-350, Plenum Press, New York (1995b).
9. ELANDS, J., BEETSMA, A., BARBERIS, C. and DE KLOET, E.R., Topography of the oxytocin-receptor system in the rat brain: an autoradiographical study with the selective radio-iodinated oxytocin antagonist. J. chem. Neuroanat., 1, 293-302 (1988).
10. FREUND-MERCIER, M.J. and STOECKEL, M.E., Somatodendritic autoreceptors on oxytocin neurons. In: R. Ivell and J.A. Russell (eds.), Advances in experimental medicine and biology, Vol. 385, pp. 185-194, Plenum Press, New York (1995).
11. FREUND-MERCIER, M.J., STOECKEL, M.E. and KLEIN, M.J., Oxytocin receptors on oxytocin neurones: histo-autoradiographic detection in lactating rat. J. Physiol., 480, 155-161 (1994).
12. GAETANO, C., MANNI, I., BOSSI, G., PIAGGIO, G., SODDU, S., FARINA, A., HELMAN, L.J. and SACCHI, A., Retinoic acid and cAMP differentially regulate human chromogranin-A-promoter activity during differentiation of neuroblastoma cells. Europ. J. Cancer, 4, 447-452 (1995).
13. HEYDERMAN, E., Immunoperoxidase technique in histopathology: applications, methods and controls. J. clin. Palhol., 32, 971-978 (1979).
14. ITO, Y. and 13 OTHERS, Investigation of the oxytocin receptor expression in human breast-cancer tissue using newly established monoclonal antibodies. Endocrinology, 137, 773-779 (1996).
15. JANET, T., LUDECKE, G., OTTEN, U. and UNSICKER, K., Heterogeneity of human neuroblastoma cell lines in their proliferative responses to basic FGF, NGF and EGF: correlation with expression of growth factors and growth-factor receptors. J. Neurosci. Res., 40, 707-715 (1995).
16. PAHLMAN, S., HOEHNER, J.C., NANBERG, E., HEDBORG, F., FAGERSTROM, S., GESTBLOM, C., JOHANSSON, I., LARSSON, U., LAVENIUS, E., ORTOFF, E. and SODERHOLM, H., Differentiation and survival influence of growth factors in human neuroblastoma. Europ. J. Cancer, 31, 453-458 (1995).
17. RICHARD, PH., Moos, F. and FREUND-MERCIER, M.J., Central effects of oxytocin. Physiol. Rev., 71, 331-370 (1991).
18. Ross, R.A., SPENGLER, B.A. and BIEDLER, J.L., Coordinate morphological and biochemical interconversion of human neuroblastoma cells. J. nat. Cancer Inst., 71, 741-747 (1983).
19. SAWCHENKO, P.E. and SWANSON, L.W., Hypothalamic integration: organization of the paraventricular and supra-optic nuclei. Ann. Rev. Neurosci., 6, 269-324 (1983).
20. TAKEMURA, M., NOMURA, S., KIMURA, T., INOUE, T., ONOUE, H., AZUMA, C., SAJI, F., KITAMURA, Y. and TANIZAWA, O., Expression and localization of oxytocin-receptor gene in human uterine endometrium in relation to the menstrual cycle. Endocrinology, 132, 1830-1835 (1993).
21. TRIBOLLET, E., BARBERIS, C., JARD, S., DUBOIS-DAUPHIN, M. and DREIFUSS, J.J., Localization and pharmacological characterization of high-affinity binding sites for vasopressin and oxytocin in the rat brain by light microscopic autoradiography. Brain Res., 442, 105-118 (1988).
22. TSAI, C.H., HUNG, L.M., CHENG, H.P. and CHEN, J.K., Increased intracellular cyclic AMP levels suppress the mitogenic responses of human astrocytoma cells to growth factors. J. Neuro-oncol., 23, 41-52 (1995).
23. VAN LEEUWEN, F.W., VAN HEERIKHUIZE, J., VAN DER MEULEN, G. and WOLTERS, P., Light microscopic autoradiographic localization of (3H) oxytocin binding sites in the rat brain, pituitary and mammary gland. Brain Res., 359, 320-325 (1985).
24. VERBALIS, J.G., BLACKBURN, R.E., HOFFMAN, G.E. and STRICKER, E.M. Establishing behavioral and physiological functions of central oxytocin: insights from studies on oxytocin and ingestive behaviors. In: R. Ivell and J.A. Russell (eds.), Advances in experimental medicine and biology, Vol. 385, 209-225, Plenum Press, New York (1995).
25. YOSHIMURA, R., KIYAMA, H., KlMURA, T., ARAKI, T., MAENO, H., TANTZAWA, O. and TOHYAMA, M., Localization of oxytocin-receptor mRNA in the rat brain. Endocrinology, 133, 1239-1246 (1993).