Finasteride and doxazosin effects on rat prostate: ultrastructural and type Iand type III and TGF-1 expression analyses

Author(s)

Flavia Karina Delella

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia
• Defense date: 2010-07-22

Examining board members

Paulo Pinto Joazeiro; Fernanda Cristina Alcântara dos Santos; Raquel Fantin Domeniconi; Wagner José Fávaro

• Advisor: Sérgio Luis Felisbino

Abstract

Finasteride and doxazosin are drugs used in the benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) treatment and, more recently, they're have been used in the prostate cancer (PCa) chemoprevention, mainly because their apoptotic effect in the prostatic epithelial cells. However, few attentions have been given to the effects of these drugs in the glandular stroma. Thus, the objective of this study was to analyze the effects of the finasteride or doxazosin treatment on stroma arrangement and on specific components, like collagen type I, collagen type III and TGF-Beta 1. For this aim, we have used morphological, biochemical and molecular approaches. Finasteride treatment provoked epithelial apoptosis, epithelial basal membrane and smooth muscle cells basal membrane alterations, besides decrease the type I and type III collagen fibers expression. The alpha-adrenergic blockade increased the elastic fibers system, promoted apoptosis in epithelial cells, as well altered the type I and type III collagen fibers expression. Both drugs influenced the TGF-Beta 1 up-regulation that show to be related with apoptosis in finasteride treatment and with collagen fibers alterations and fibroblasts activation in doxazosin treatment. In conclusion, the stromal alterations promoted by finasteride and doxazosin treatments can contribute to the prostate regression expected in the BPH treatment and to the rupture of paracrine events responsible by tumoral evolution in the PCa (AU)