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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 309, Issue 2, Pages 464-468Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2003.08.024
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ghrelin; cachexia; Akt; pancreatic adenocarcinoma; cancer; GHS-R; PANC1; MIAPaCa2; BxPc3; Capan2; invasion
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK 47326, DK 02786] Funding Source: Medline
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Ghrelin, a newly described potent orexigenic peptide, may have therapeutic potential in patients with cachexia. We assessed whether pancreatic adenocarcinoma, commonly associated with marked cachexia, is a ghrelin-responsive malignancy. Pancreatic adenocarcinoma cells were exposed to ghrelin (0-100 nM). Proliferation was determined by MTT assay. Ghrelin, ghrelin 1 a and 1b receptor expression and Akt phosphorylation were assessed. The effects of ghrelin (its antagonist D-Lys-GHRP6, or the P13-K inhibitor Wortmannin) on cellular motility and invasiveness were quantified by Matrigel Boyden chamber assay. All cell lines expressed ghrelin la and 1b receptor transcript and protein, but only PANC1 weakly expressed ghrelin transcript. Ten nanomolar ghrelin increased proliferation, motility, invasiveness, and Akt phosphorylation in all cell lines. Proliferation was affected dose-dependently, being suppressed at higher ghrelin concentrations. D-Lys-GHRP6 suppressed ghrelin-induced proliferation, invasion, and Akt phosphorylation. Wortmannin abolished the effects of ghrelin on motility and invasiveness. Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is a ghrelin-responsive malignancy. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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