Role of autocrine and endocrine gastrin-like peptides in colonic carcinogenesis

Pomila Singh, Bosong Dai, Hai Wu, Azar Owlia

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Abstract

Colon carcinogenesis is a multistep process that involves deletions, mutations, and changes in expression of genes that regulate growth, differentiation, and apoptosis. Hyperproliferation can initiate dysplastic growth, resulting in accumulation of genetic defects and progression of colon cancer. Although genetic instability, because of inheritance of specific genetic defects, plays a dominant role in familial cancers, in the majority of sporadic cancers hyperproliferation is likely to play a permissive role in initiation and progression of the disease. Thus factors that regulate growth, differentiation, and apoptosis are likely to play an important role in colon carcinogenesis. Autocrine gastrins, insulin-like growth factor-II, transforming growth factor-α, and endocrine gastrins have been implicated in the tumorigenic potential of colon cancer cells. In this article we focus on the role of endocrine and autocrine gastrins in colon cancer and review recent advances that suggest a role of processing intermediates of gastrin in colon carcinogenesis. (C) 2000 Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Inc.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)68-77
Number of pages10
JournalCurrent Opinion in Gastroenterology
Volume16
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2000

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Gastroenterology

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