In colon carcinogenesis, the cytoskeletal protein gelsolin is down-regulated during the transition from adenoma to carcinoma.

The actin-binding protein gelsolin is involved in cell motility via the regulation of actin cytoskeleton, and its expression is modified in several human cancers. However, the potential implication of this protein in colorectal carcinogenesis is debated. By using immunohistochemistry, we studied gelsolin expression in 69 cases of colon adenocarcinomas and in 72 lesions representative of the different stages of colonic tumorigenesis.

Androgen inhibits the growth of carcinoma cell lines established from prostate cancer xenografts that escape androgen treatment.

Most prostate cancers escape endocrine therapy by diverse mechanisms. One of them might be growth repression by androgen. We reported that androgen represses the growth in culture of MOP cells (a sub-line of LNCaP cells) and that of MOP cell xenografts, although tumor growth becomes androgen-independent (AI).

Aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibitors: alpha,beta-acetylenic N-substituted aminothiolesters are reversible growth inhibitors of normal epithelial but irreversible apoptogens for cancer epithelial cells from human prostate in culture.

The pharmacomodulation of the N atom of alpha,beta-acetylenic aminothiolesters or the replacement of the thiolester moiety by more electrophilic groups did not permit any clear rationale to be established for improving the selective growth-inhibitory activity of this family of compounds over that of the previously synthesized alpha,beta-acetylenic aminothiolesters DIMATE and MATE [G. Quash, G. Fournet, J.

Divergent biological effects of estradiol and diethylstilbestrol in the prostate cancer cell line MOP.

The involvement of mutated androgen receptors (mut-AR) in the actions of estrogens in prostate cancer cells is controversial. This work was designed to determine the role of such receptors in the growth inhibition by estradiol (E2) and androgens of the MOP cell line, a derivative of the LNCaP cell line. Diethylstilbestrol (DES) was used as a "tool".

Insulin-like growth factor I is a determinant of hip bone mineral density in men less than 60 years of age: MINOS study.

Several studies show that in elderly men bone mineral density (BMD) is not correlated with the insulin-like growth factor (IGF-I) level, but data are scanty in young men. Results of studies correlating insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3 (IGFBP-3) and BMD in men are discordant. As different hypotheses can explain the discordant results, we evaluated the correlation of BMD with serum IGF-I, IGFBP-3, and IGF-I/IGFBP-3 index in a large cohort of 721 men aged 19-85 years taking into account age, body weight, 17beta-estradiol, free testosterone, and parathyroid hormone.