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We set up in vitro several human colorectal neoplastic cell lines that we labelled "hormone-sensitive" (HS) in comparison to the original cell lines which appeared to be rather "hormone-insensitive" (HI). We used LoVo and HCT-15 human colorectal neoplastic cell lines and studied the influence of 17 beta-oestradiol (E2), gastrin and two gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogues, HRF and buserelin, on the proliferation of the HS and HI variants of the LoVo and HCT-15 cell lines. Cell proliferation was evaluated by a colorimetric assay, the MTT test. Our results show that E2, gastrin, HRF and buserelin did not induce a significant stimulatory influence on the HI variants of the LoVo and HCT-15 cells, i.e. the cells that were cultured in a hormone-free 10% FCS-supplemented medium. In sharp contrast, the colorectal cells cultured for 30 passages in an E2 and/or gastrin + 1% FCS-supplemented medium showed a marked tropic response to E2, gastrin, HRF and buserelin. However, the HS variants of the HCT-15 cells appeared less sensitive to the two GnRH analogues than did the HS variants of the LoVo cells.
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PMID:In vitro influence of gastrin, oestradiol and gonadotropin-releasing hormone on HCT-15 and LoVo human colorectal neoplastic cell proliferation. 183 97