Modulation in the radiosensitivity of MCF-7 human breast carcinoma cells by 17B-estradiol and tamoxifen

British Journal of Radiology - Tập 62 Số 744 - Trang 1079-1083 - 1989
David E. Wazer1, Oscar F. Tercilla1, Peck‐Sun Lin1, Rupert Schmidt‐Ullrich1
1Department of Radiation Oncology, New England Medical Center Hospital, Tufts University School of Medicine , 750 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA

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Abstract Colony-forming ability after exposure to ionizing irradiation was compared for proliferating hormone response MCF-7 breast carcinoma cells and cells whose growth was inhibited by tamoxifen or 17B-estradiol. As compared with controls (D  o = 1.20Gy, n = 3.1), cells in 1 μM or 5 μM tamoxifen were less radiosensitive (D  o = 1.20Gy, n = 7.0; D  o = 1.22Gy, n = 7.0, respectively) with the predominant effect being a widened shoulder on the survival curve. This protective effect could be abolished by co-incubation of 5 μM tamoxifen with 100 nM or 5 μM 17B-estradiol (D  o = 1.30Gy, n = 2.6; D  o = 1.20Gy, n = 2.6, respectively). The decrease in radiosensitivity induced by tamoxifen was similar to that seen when replating of irradiated plateau-phase cultures was delayed for 24 h (D  o = 1.30Gy, n = 6.0). In contrast, when proliferation of MCF-7 cultures was inhibited by 10 μM 17Bestradiol, radiosensitivity was increased with a markedly diminished survival curve shoulder (D  o = 1.40Gy, n = 1.0). Different hormonal manipulations of cycling human breast carcinoma cells may have profound but disparate efects on radiosensitivity such that tamoxifen and estrogens may serve as useful agents with which to study the biochemical mechanisms of repair.

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British Journal of Radiology

Tập 62 Số 744

1079-1083

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