Psychosocial stressors and mammary tumor growth
| Autor: | Joanne Weinberg, Joanne T. Emerman, Karen S. Strange, Leslie R. Kerr, Heather N. Andrews |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Mammary tumor Stressor Toxicology medicine.disease Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience chemistry.chemical_compound Endocrinology Breast cancer Developmental Neuroscience chemistry Corticosterone Internal medicine Cancer research medicine Experimental pathology Psychology Psychosocial Testosterone Hormone |
| Zdroj: | Neurotoxicology and Teratology. 22:89-102 |
| ISSN: | 0892-0362 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0892-0362(99)00049-5 |
| Popis: | Stressful life events and the ability to cope with stress may play a role in the progression of breast cancer; however, the complex relationship between stressors and tumor growth is difficult to investigate in humans. Our studies have utilized the androgen-responsive Shionogi mouse mammary carcinoma (AR SC115) in male mice to investigate the effects of social housing condition on tumor growth rates and responses to chemotherapy. We demonstrate that, depending on social housing condition, mammary tumor growth and response to chemotherapy can both increase and decrease. We have examined the possible role(s) of 1) psychosocial variables, 2) testosterone and corticosterone, hormones altered by stress and known to stimulate SC115 cells in vivo and in vitro, 3) NK cells, one of the body's first lines of defense against tumor cells, 4) stress proteins, in mediating the differential tumor growth rates observed in our model. This review discusses the investigations we have undertaken to elucidate the mechanisms through which a psychosocial stressor, social housing condition, can alter tumor growth rate. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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