Prostate Epithelial Cells (PrEC)

Cultured prostate epithelial cells （PrEc）provide unique opportunities to study many important features of the prostate, as well as, chemical and hormonal carcinogenesis. TRAIL is a pro-apoptotic cytokine believed to selectively kill cancer cells without harming normal ones. Studies found that in normal human prostate epithelial cells TRAIL is capable of inducing apoptosis as efficiently as in some tumor cell lines. Cadmium-induced malignant transformation of human prostate epithelial cells strongly fortifies the evidence for a potential role of cadmium in prostate cancer.