PMID: 9645768Jun 30, 1998Paper

Development, progression, and androgen-dependence of prostate tumors in probasin-large T antigen transgenic mice: a model for prostate cancer

Laboratory Investigation; a Journal of Technical Methods and Pathology
S KasperRobert J Matusik

Abstract

Probasin (PB) gene product is prostate-specific, epithelial cell in origin, and androgen-regulated. A large 12-kb promoter fragment of the PB gene (LPB) was linked to the simian virus 40 (SV40) large T antigen (Tag) deletion mutant (that removes the expression of the small t antigen) to deliver consistently high levels of transgene expression to the transgenic mouse prostate. Seven male founders, their male offspring, and all the male offspring from two female founders developed at least prostatic epithelial cell hyperplasia by 10 weeks of age, indicating that the incidence of transformation was 100%. Tumorigenesis in the LPB-Tag animals progressed in a manner similar to that observed in the human prostate. Initially, multifocal proliferating lesions were detected in the prostatic epithelium, which continued to progress into hyperplasia involving the entire epithelium and then low-grade dysplasia. Reactive stromal proliferation was induced and continued to develop throughout the progression to high-grade dysplasia, carcinoma in situ, and adenocarcinoma. Immunohistochemical studies indicated that most stromal cells stained positively for both androgen receptor and smooth muscle alpha-actin, suggesting that stromal overgrowth lar...Continue Reading

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