Molecular modulation of estrogen-induced apoptosis by synthetic progestins in hormone replacement therapy : an insight into the women's health initiative study

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Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is widely used to manage menopausal symptoms in women and can be comprised of an estrogen alone or an estrogen combined with a progestin. The Women's Health Initiative demonstrated in their randomized trials that estrogen alone HRT decreases the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, whereas combined estrogen plus a progestin (medroxyprogesterone acetate, MPA) HRT increases this risk. Long-term estrogen-deprived MCF-7:5C cells were used to model the postmenopausal breast cancer cell environment. MPA is able to modify E2-induced apoptosis in MCF-7:5C cells. MPA, similar to dexamethasone, increases glucocorticoid receptor (GR) transcriptional activity, increases SGK1, a GR target gene, and can be blocked by RU486 (an antiglucocorticoid), suggesting that it functions through the GR. Norethindrone acetate (NETA), another progestin used in HRT, acts like an estrogen at high doses, upregulating estrogen receptor target genes and generating apoptosis in MCF-7:5C cells. The data suggest that women taking HRT comprising an estrogen plus MPA may have an increased risk of breast cancer due to MPA acting as a glucocorticoid and blunting E2-induced apoptosis in this environment. Therefore, perhaps other approved progestins (e.g., NETA) should be considered as alternatives to MPA.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2014

Erschienen:

2014

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:74

Enthalten in:

Cancer research - 74(2014), 23 vom: 01. Dez., Seite 7060-8

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sweeney, Elizabeth E [VerfasserIn]
Fan, Ping [VerfasserIn]
Jordan, V Craig [VerfasserIn]

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Dexamethasone
Estrogens
Glucocorticoids
Journal Article
Medroxyprogesterone Acetate
Mifepristone
Norethindrone
Norethindrone Acetate
Progesterone Congeners
Receptors, Estrogen
Receptors, Glucocorticoid
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
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Date Completed 04.03.2015

Date Revised 22.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-14-1784

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM242677606