Abstract
Glucocorticoids are among the most potent anti-inflammatory agents that act by inhibiting the synthesis of almost all known cytokines and influencing multiple transduction pathways. Inflammation accompanies most solid cancers including pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), one of the most fatal cancers with surgery being the only potential curative therapeutic. In the present work we investigated the influence of glucocorticoids on PDAC cells in vitro as well as in vivo in a pancreatic carcinoma resection mouse model. The influence of dexamethasone (DEX), a synthetic glucocorticoid, on proliferation and IL8 secretion in pancreatic cells (BxPC3, Colo357, PancTuI) was analyzed by cell counting and ELISA. NFkappaB-activity of PancTuI cells treated with DEX was determined by electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA). Furthermore, effects of DEX on the invasiveness were studied by a fibroblast-based invasion assay. In the mouse resection model subtotal pancreatectomy was performed after orthotopic inoculation of human PDAC cells. DEX was administered after resection as an adjuvant treatment regime and 4 weeks later, local recurrent tumor sizes as well as number of liver and spleen metastases were analyzed. In vitro, DEX did not...Continue Reading
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