Effects of Estradiol and Tamoxifen on Proliferation of Human Breast Cancer Cells and Human Endometrial Cells

摘要

The effects of estradiol and tamoxifen on the proliferation of estrogen receptor positivecells and the relationship between the tamoxifen tolerance and cell origin were investigated. The tis-sues of human endometrium and breast cancer were randomly selected following dissection for pri-mary cell culture. After the breast cancer cells and endometrial cells were treated with 1 × 10-8 mol/L estradiol and/or 1 × 10-6 tamoxifen, a H-labelled thymine nucleotide was used to trace the kineticsof cell proliferation. There was no significant difference in the inhibition on the human endometrialcells between tamoxifen-treated group (6.3%) and control group (6.4%), but tamoxifen could sig-nificantly inhibit the proliferation of the human breast cancer cells (45.84 % ) as compared with con-trol group (52.72%). Moreover, tamoxifen could significantly stimulate the proliferation of tamox-ifen resistant breast cancer cells (9.64%) as compared with control group (6.32 %). Estradiolcould significantly stimulate the proliferation of all the three kinds of cells as compared with controlgroup. The combined use of estradiol and tamoxifen could inhibit the proliferation of the endometri-al cells and breast cancer cells as compared with estradiol used alone, but on the tamoxifen resistantbreast cancer cells, they could more significantly stimulate the proliferation than E2. It was conclu-ded that E2 could stimulate the proliferation of these three kinds of cells. However, the inhibitiveeffects of tamoxifen on the proliferation of these cells were dependent on the estradiol.