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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sood, Anil K
• Thaker, Premal H
• Han, Liz Y
• Kamat, Aparna A
• Arevalo, Jesusa M
• Takahashi, Rie
• Lu, Chunhua
• Jennings, Nicholas B
• Armaiz-Pena, Guillermo
• Bankson, James A
• Ravoori, Murali
• Merritt, William M
• Lin, Yvonne G
• Mangala, Lingegowda S
• Kim, Tae Jin
• Coleman, Robert L
• Landen, Charles N
• Li, Yang
• Felix, Edward
• Sanguino, Angela M
• Newman, Robert A
• Lloyd, Mary
• Gershenson, David M
• Kundra, Vikas
• Lopez-Berestein, Gabriel
• Lutgendorf, Susan K
• Cole, Steven W

Titel

Chronic stress promotes tumor growth and angiogenesis in a mouse model of ovarian carcinoma

Ist Teil von

• Nature medicine, 2006-08, Vol.12 (8), p.939-944

Ort / Verlag

United States: Nature Publishing Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Stress can alter immunological, neurochemical and endocrinological functions, but its role in cancer progression is not well understood. Here, we show that chronic behavioral stress results in higher levels of tissue catecholamines, greater tumor burden and more invasive growth of ovarian carcinoma cells in an orthotopic mouse model. These effects are mediated primarily through activation of the tumor cell cyclic AMP (cAMP)-protein kinase A (PKA) signaling pathway by the β2 adrenergic receptor (encoded by ADRB2). Tumors in stressed animals showed markedly increased vascularization and enhanced expression of VEGF, MMP2 and MMP9, and we found that angiogenic processes mediated the effects of stress on tumor growth in vivo. These data identify β-adrenergic activation of the cAMP-PKA signaling pathway as a major mechanism by which behavioral stress can enhance tumor angiogenesis in vivo and thereby promote malignant cell growth. These data also suggest that blocking ADRB-mediated angiogenesis could have therapeutic implications for the management of ovarian cancer.