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Journal Article
Functional consequences of prolactin signalling in endothelial cells: a potential link with angiogenesis in pathophysiology?
2012
Overview
Prolactin is best known as the polypeptide anterior pituitary hormone, which regulates the development of the mammary gland. However, it became clear over the last decade that prolactin contributes to a broad range of pathologies, including breast cancer. Prolactin is also involved in angiogenesis via the release of pro‐angiogenic factors by leukocytes and epithelial cells. However, whether prolactin also influences endothelial cells, and whether there are functional consequences of prolactin‐induced signalling in the perspective of angiogenesis, remains so far elusive. In the present study, we show that prolactin induces phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and STAT5 and induces tube formation of endothelial cells on Matrigel. These effects are blocked by a specific prolactin receptor antagonist, del1‐9‐G129R‐hPRL. Moreover, in an in vivo model of the chorioallantoic membrane of the chicken embryo, prolactin enhances vessel density and the tortuosity of the vasculature and pillar formation, which are hallmarks of intussusceptive angiogenesis. Interestingly, while prolactin has only little effect on endothelial cell proliferation, it markedly stimulates endothelial cell migration. Again, migration was reverted by del1‐9‐G129R‐hPRL, indicating a direct effect of prolactin on its receptor. Immunohistochemistry and spectral imaging revealed that the prolactin receptor is present in the microvasculature of human breast carcinoma tissue. Altogether, these results suggest that prolactin may directly stimulate angiogenesis, which could be one of the mechanisms by which prolactin contributes to breast cancer progression, thereby providing a potential tool for intervention.
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Ltd,John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Subject
/ Angiogenesis Inducing Agents - adverse effects
/ Animals
/ Breast Neoplasms - pathology
/ Endothelial Cells - metabolism
/ Endothelial Cells - pathology
/ Extracellular signal-regulated kinase
/ Female
/ MAP Kinase Signaling System - drug effects
/ Mice
/ Neovascularization, Pathologic - pathology
/ Original
/ Prostate
/ Receptors, Prolactin - antagonists & inhibitors
/ Receptors, Prolactin - metabolism
/ Signal Transduction - drug effects
