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| العنوان: |
Conditional knockout of the leptin receptor in the colonic epithelium revealed the local effects of leptin receptor signaling in the progression of colonic tumors in mice. |
| المؤلفون: |
Higurashi, Takuma, Endo, Hiroki, Uchiyama, Takashi, Uchiyama, Shiori, Yamada, Eiji, Ohkubo, Hidenori, Sakai, Eiji, Takahashi, Hirokazu, Maeda, Shin, Wada, Koichiro, Natsumeda, Yutaka, Hippo, Yoshitaka, Nakajima, Atsushi, Nakagama, Hitoshi |
| المصدر: |
Carcinogenesis; Sep2014, Vol. 35 Issue 9, p2134-2141, 8p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
COLON cancer, LEPTIN receptors, EPITHELIUM, CELLULAR signal transduction, CANCER invasiveness, LABORATORY mice, CARCINOGENESIS |
| مستخلص: |
The role of leptin in colorectal carcinogenesis is still unclear. We produced and used intestinal epithelium-specific LEPR cKO mice to clarify the importance of local/regional LEPR-mediated signaling in colorectal carcinogenesis.Leptin, secreted by the adipose tissue and known to be related to obesity, is considered to be involved in the onset and progression of colorectal cancer. However, the exact role of leptin in colorectal carcinogenesis is still unclear, as several controversial reports have been published on the various systemic effects of leptin. The aim of this study was to clarify the local and precise roles of leptin receptor (LEPR)-mediated signaling in colonic carcinogenesis using intestinal epithelium-specific LEPRb conditional knockout (cKO) mice. We produced and used colonic epithelium-specific LEPRb cKO mice to investigate the carcinogen-induced formation of aberrant crypt foci (ACF) and tumors in the colon, using their littermates as control. There were no differences in the body weight or systemic condition between the control and cKO mice. The tumor sizes and number of large-sized tumors were significantly lower in the cKO mice as compared with those in the control mice. On the other hand, there was no significant difference in the proliferative activity of the normal colonic epithelial cells or ACF formation between the control and cKO mice. In the control mice, marked increase of the LEPRb expression level was observed in the colonic tumors as compared with that in the normal epithelium; furthermore, signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT3) was activated in the tumor cells. These findings suggest that STAT3 is one of the important molecules downstream of LEPRb, and LEPRb/STAT3 signaling controls tumor cell proliferation. We demonstrated the importance of local/regional LEPR-mediated signaling in colorectal carcinogenesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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