PMID: 6403234May 1, 1983Paper

Effect of pharmacological doses of estrogen on ovary-independent rat mammary carcinoma containing estrogen and progesterone receptors

Cancer Research
H YoshidaK Matsumoto

Abstract

Mammary carcinoma induced in male Sprague-Dawley rats by multiple intragastric intubations of 7,12-dimethylbenz-(a)anthracene showed ovary-independent growth but contained estrogen receptors (ER) and progesterone receptors (Yoshida, Yoshida. Fukunishi, Sato, Okamoto, and Matsumoto, Cancer Res., 42: 2434-2439, 1982). Transplantable carcinoma (MT6) was obtained from dimethylbenz(a)anthracene-induced mammary carcinoma and then maintained in male rats. MT6 tumors with ER grew equally well in males, females, gonadectomized males, males given injections of bromocryptine (1 mg/day) or lisuride hydrogen maleate (50 micrograms/day), and gonadectomized males receiving smaller doses of 17 beta-estradiol (1 to 100 micrograms/2 days). However, the growth of MT6 was inhibited markedly by injection of a very large amount of 17 beta-estradiol (1 mg/2 days). Although transplanted MT6 tumors were ductal carcinoma with cribriform pattern with ER, tumors recurring after injection with 1 mg 17 beta-estradiol were found to be spindle cell carcinoma without ER, which could grow equally well in recipients treated with or without 1 mg 17 beta-estradiol. These observations suggest that the growth of ovary-independent MT6 tumors with ER and progesterone ...Continue Reading

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