Inositol hexaphosphate inhibits growth and induces differentiation of human prostate cancer cells. - GreenMedInfo Summary
Inositol hexaphosphate inhibits growth and induces differentiation of PC-3 human prostate cancer cells.
Carcinogenesis. 1995 Aug;16(8):1975-9. PMID: 7634429
Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201, USA.
We investigated the effects of inositol hexaphosphate (InsP6) on growth inhibition and differentiation of human prostate cancer cells PC-3 in vitro. A significant dose- and time-dependent growth inhibition was observed as tested by the MTT-incorporation assay (P<0.05 at 1 mM InsP6 after 24 h treatment, P<0.01 at 0.1 mM after 3 days). DNA synthesis as determined by [3H]thymidine incorporation assay was also suppressed by InsP6 in a dose-dependent manner, occurring as early as 3 h after treatment and continuing up to 48 h (P<0.01 at 1 mM InsP6). A 9- to 10-fold increase (P<0.01) in expression of HLA class I molecule associated with tumor immunosurveillance and cell differentiation was induced by InsP6. The marker for prostatic cell differentiation, prostate acid phosphatase, was significantly (P<0.05) increased after 48 h treatment at 0.5-5 mM InsP6. Since InsP6 strongly inhibits growth and induces differentiation in human prostate cancer cells in vitro, in vivo studies using a tumor xenograft model and a prostate carcinogenesis model are warranted to validate the efficacy of InsP6 in the treatment and prevention of prostate cancer.