Promoting effects and mechanisms of action of androgen in bladder carcinogenesis in male rats
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- DOI: 10.1159/000474484
Promoting effects and mechanisms of action of androgen in bladder carcinogenesis in male rats
Abstract
Objective: It has been reported that blocking of testosterone production inhibits bladder carcinogenesis in various animal models. We investigated how testosterone acts on rat bladder carcinogenesis using an antiandrogen, flutamide, and a 5 alpha-reductase inhibitor, finasteride.
Methods: Experiment 1: we administered 0.05% BBN [N-butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl)nitrosamine] orally to 117 Wistar rats for 10 weeks, divided them into seven groups-control, surgical castration, finasteride (2 mg/kg), luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LH-RH) agonist (1 mg/kg) flutamide (50 mg/kg), LH-RH agonist plus finasteride, and LH-RH agonist plus flutamide-, and then cystectomized them to investigate the incidence of bladder cancer on week 21; experiment 2: we administered 0.05% BBN to 154 Wistar rats for 7 weeks, divided them into seven groups-control, finasteride 2, 4, and 8 mg/kg, and flutamide 50, 100, and 200 mg/kg-, and then we cystectomized them to investigate the dose-dependent influence on bladder carcinogenesis of these drugs on week 20, and experiment 3: we investigated the presence of androgen receptors in rat and mouse normal bladder mucosa using a monoclonal antibody.
Results and conclusions: Experiment 1: Surgical castration and LH-RH agonist treatment significantly reduced the occurrence of carcinomas. There was no significant additive effect of coadministered finasteride or flutamide with LH-RH agonist. Finasteride or flutamide monotherapy showed no statistically significant effects on the results of experiment 1 at the doses used. Experiment 2: Flutamide showed a dose-dependent effect on reducing the number of rats with bladder cancer, and at a dosis of 200 mg/kg twice a week, the difference was statistically significant when compared with the control group, whereas finasteride had no statistically significant suppressing effect at any dose. Experiment 3: Mouse and rat bladder urothelium expressed the androgen receptor. Our results indicate that testosterone itself might have a more potent action on bladder carcinogenesis rather than its converting form, 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone.
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