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Tamoxifen, alone or in combination with retinoids, decreased tumor incidence by more than 70% by the end of the study, whereas 9cRA alone decreased it by 50%.
It is plausible, therefore, that upregulation of endogenous TGF-β could contribute to the chemopreventive efficacy of SERMs and retinoids.
At this time, however, we certainly cannot rule out the possibility that tamoxifen and retinoids may be having subtle effects on the TGF-β system at levels other than the regulation of TGF-β expression.
In the present study, we used a carcinogen-induced rat model of mammary carcinogenesis to test whether chemoprevention by tamoxifen and by two different retinoids (4-HPR, also known as fenretinide; and 9-cRA) is associated with local upregulation of TGF-βs in the initiated mammary gland.
There is an extensive literature showing that steroid hormone superfamily members, such as antiestrogens and retinoids, can upregulate TGF-β activity in a variety of systems [ 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 23, 24, 35].