Modulação da atividade das interleucinas 17B e 25 associadas à melatonina como indutores de apoptose em cultivo celular de neoplasias mamárias

• Autor(a) principal: Gelaleti, Gabriela Bottaro [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/136700; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/24-03-2016/000859983.pdf
• topic: Genética; Cancer - Aspectos geneticos; Mamas - Cancer; Interleucina-17; Melatonina; Apoptose; Neovascularização; Genetics

The development of mammary carcinogenesis involves neovascularization, deregulation of differentiation and apoptosis in tumor cells and the microenvironment. It is established that such effects may be controlled by melatonin, a hormone produced by the pineal gland that has oncostatic action on tumor cells and modulates interleukins (ILs) expression. IL-25, also known as IL-17E, is an active cytokine in inflammatory processes, capable of inducing apoptosis in tumor cells because of differential expression of its receptor (IL- 17RB). It is known that IL-17B competes with IL-25 for binding to receptor IL- 17RB on tumor cells, promoting tumorigenesis. The aim of this study was to investigate the action of melatonin and IL-25/IL-17B signaling in apoptosis and angiogenesis in breast tumor cells. Metastatic (MDA-MB-231 and CF-41), nonmetastatic (MCF-7 and CMT-U229) human and canine mammary tumor cell lines and human non-tumorigenic mammary epithelial cells (MCF-10A) were cultured in monolayer and three-dimensional structures on extracellular matrix rich in laminin (ECM) and treated for 48 hours with melatonin, IL-25, siIL-17B and the three combination therapies. Cell viability was measured by MTT assay, gene and protein expression by qRT-PCR and immunofluorescence, respectively. Also, a quantitative analysis of proteins present in the apoptotic pathway was performed after treatment with melatonin in the MDA-MB-231 and CF-41 cells. The treatment with 1 mM melatonin and 1 ng/mL of IL-25 significantly reduced the viability of human tumor cell lines (p < 0.05) and did not alter the cell viability of MCF-10A cells (p > 0.05). In canine cell lines, only 1 mM melatonin significantly reduced cell viability (p < 0.05). All three independent and combined treatments were able to significantly increase the protein expression of cleaved caspase-3 in all the tumor cells in monolayer and 3D structures (p < 0.05), which confirms the pro-apoptotic potential of ...