Vitamin D postpones the progression of epithelial ovarian cancer induced by 7, 12-dimethylbenz [a] anthracene both in vitro and in vivo

Lizhi Liu,1,* Zhiyong Hu,2,* Hemei Zhang,3 Yongfeng Hou,1 Zengli Zhang,4 Guangming Zhou,5 Bingyan Li1,5 1School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, 2Department of Chronic Disease Management, Lishui Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Lishui, 3Department of Chronic Disease Management, Wenzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wenzhou, 4Department of Labor Hygiene and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Soochow University, Suzhou, 5School of Radiation Medicine and Protection, Soochow University, Suzhou, People’s Republic of China *These authors contributed equally tothis work Purpose: Ovarian cancer is the most lethal malignancy of the female reproductive system, and the prevention and treatment of ovarian carcinoma are still far from optimal. Epidemiological studies reported that ovarian cancer risk was inversely associated with low level of 25-hydroxy vitamin D [25(OH)]. Therefore, this study focuses on exploring the chemoprevention of vitamin D on epithelial ovarian cancer induced by 7, 12-dimethylbenz [a] anthracene (DMBA).Methods: The mouse ovarian surface epithelial cells were isolated from estrus mice by mild trypsinization and maintained in completed culture medium by repeated passaging. The malignant transformation of mouse ovarian surface epithelial cells was induced by DMBA in vitro. DMBA was directly injected into the bursa of mouse ovary to produce optimized in vivo ovarian cancer model.Results: The results indicate that 1α,25 dihydroxyvitamin D3 may delay malignant transformation of mouse ovarian surface epithelial cells induced by DMBA and significantly decreased the colony formation rate from 18.4% to 3.2% (P