22 : 6n-3 DHA inhibits differentiation of prostate fibroblasts into myofibroblasts and tumorigenesis
- 6 March 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in British Journal of Nutrition
- Vol. 108 (12), 2129-2137
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007114512000359
Abstract
Prostate cancer is one of the most common malignancies in men. Epidemiological and experimental studies have revealed that stromal cells of the tumour microenvironment contribute to the development of prostate cancers, while long-chain n-3 PUFA-enriched diets reduce the risk of this tumour histotype. These findings prompted us to investigate whether DHA, an n-3 PUFA, may abrogate differentiation of prostate fibroblasts into myofibroblasts, the activated form of fibroblasts generally involved in prostate cancer progression. We used the human prostate carcinoma cell line (PC3) as a prostate adenocarcinoma model and found that DHA (1) inhibits α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) expression, a typical marker of myofibroblast differentiation, in prostate fibroblasts stimulated in vitro with transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β), (2) blocks the matrix metalloproteinase-2-dependent enhanced invasiveness of PC3 prostate adenocarcinoma cells migrated in a medium conditioned by TGF-β-stimulated prostate fibroblasts, (3) prevents epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) and invasiveness of PC3 cells promoted by a medium conditioned by TGF-β-stimulated prostate fibroblasts, and (4) reduces the growth rate of tumours obtained in immunodeficient animals injected with PC3 cells plus TGF-β-stimulated prostate fibroblasts. Moreover, DHA was found to revert α-SMA expression and the invasiveness-promoting activity exerted in PC3 cells by tumoral-activated fibroblasts. Thus, DHA represents a suitable agent to inhibit prostate myofibroblast differentiation, invasiveness and EMT, two most important tumour-promoting activities involved in the progression of prostate cancer cells.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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