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Guanylyl Cyclase C (Gc-C) Inhibits Human Colon Carcinoma Cell Growth, Giovanni Mario Pitari
Guanylyl Cyclase C (Gc-C) Inhibits Human Colon Carcinoma Cell Growth, Giovanni Mario Pitari
Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Faculty Papers
This is the presentation given for the 2001 Presidential Trainee Young Investigator Award, American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. An abstract of the presentation has been published in Clin. Pharmacol. Ther., 69(2):P62, 2001. The presentation illustrates the role of the intestinal GC-C receptor as a negative regulator of cell proliferation and cell cycle kinetics in colorectal cancer. It suggests that paracrine GC-C hormones guanylin/uroguanylin are physiological inducers of the proliferation-to-differentiation transition along the intestinal crypt-villus axis. Importantly, the bacterial enterotoxin ST, a potent exogenous GC-C agonist, is offered as a potential cytostatic agent for the prevention and treatment of …