THP-1 cells were kindly provided by Prof. Papakonstanti (School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece). The
DU-145 and T47D cell lines were purchased from DSMZ (Braunschweig, Germany). These cell lines and THP-1 differentiated macrophages were cultured in RPM1 medium supplemented with 10% FBS and 1% penicillin–streptomycin. White blood cells (WBCs) were cultured in DMEM, 4.5 g/L glucose medium supplemented with 10% FBS and 1% penicillin–streptomycin. Both primary cells and cell lines were cultured at 37 °C, 5% CO
2 in a humidified tissue culture incubator.
Unless otherwise stated, all media were purchased from Fisher Scientific (part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA), and all chemicals from Sigma (St. Louis, MO, USA). Cells were treated either with testosterone–BSA (testosterone carboxymethyl-oxime–bovine serum albumin) (10
−6 M) (T3392),
dihydrotestosterone (DHT) (10
−6 M),
5-oxo-ETE (10
−6 M), (Cayman Chemical Company, Ann Arbor, MI, USA), or Gue 1654 (10
−6 M) (Tocris Bioscience, Bristol, UK) or their combinations. Appropriate vehicles were used as controls for each treatment.
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