The Role of Estrogens in Normal and Abnormal Development of the Prostate Gland
| Autor: | Yongbing Pu, Gail S. Prins, Lynn Birch, Liwei Huang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Male
Prostatic Diseases Receptors Steroid medicine.medical_specialty Stromal cell Cellular differentiation Prostatic Hyperplasia Morphogenesis Biology Article General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Mice History and Philosophy of Science Prostate Internal medicine medicine Animals Sonic hedgehog Homeodomain Proteins FGF10 General Neuroscience Gene Expression Regulation Developmental Estrogens Hyperplasia medicine.disease Rats Endocrinology medicine.anatomical_structure Cancer research biology.protein Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins |
| Zdroj: | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1089:1-13 |
| ISSN: | 0077-8923 |
| DOI: | 10.1196/annals.1386.009 |
| Popis: | Estrogens play a physiologic role during prostate development with regard to programming stromal cells and directing early morphogenic events. However, if estrogenic exposures are abnormally high during the critical developmental period, permanent alterations in prostate branching morphogenesis and cellular differentiation will result, a process referred to as neonatal imprinting or developmental estrogenization. These perturbations are associated with an increased incidence of prostatic lesions with aging, which include hyperplasia, inflammation, and dysplasia. To understand how early estrogenic exposures can permanently alter the prostate and predispose it to neoplasia, we examined the effects of estrogens on prostatic steroid receptors and key developmental genes. Transient and permanent alterations in prostatic AR, ERα, ERβ, and RARs are observed. We propose that estrogen-induced alterations in these critical transcription factors play a fundamental role in initiating prostatic growth and differentiation defects by shifting the prostate from an androgen-dominated gland to one whose development is regulated by estrogens and retinoids. This in turn leads to specific disruptions in the expression patterns of key prostatic developmental genes that normally dictate morphogenesis and differentiation. Specifically, we find transient reductions in Nkx3.1 and permanent reductions in Hoxb-13, which lead to differentiation defects particularly within the ventral lobe. Prolonged developmental expression of Bmp-4 contributes to hypomorphic growth throughout the prostatic complex. Reduced expression of Fgf10 and Shh and their cognate receptors in the dorsolateral lobes leads to branching defects in those specific regions in response to neonatal estrogens. We hypothesize that these molecular changes initiated early in life predispose the prostate to the neoplastic state upon aging. |
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