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Preneoplastic and neoplastic progression during hepatocarcinogenesis in mice injected with diethylnitrosamine in infancy.

Basophilic hepatic foci, nodules, and trabecular hepatocellular carcinomas, collectively referred to as focal hepatic lesions, were induced by single injections of 5.0 micrograms of diethylnitrosamine (DEN) per gram body weight in 15-day-old C57BL/6J X C3HeB/FeJ F1 (B6C3 F1) mice. Groups of eight ex...

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Autores principales: Goldfarb, S, Pugh, T D, Koen, H, He, Y Z
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Publicado: 1983
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1569251/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6873010
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author Goldfarb, S
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Koen, H
He, Y Z
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description Basophilic hepatic foci, nodules, and trabecular hepatocellular carcinomas, collectively referred to as focal hepatic lesions, were induced by single injections of 5.0 micrograms of diethylnitrosamine (DEN) per gram body weight in 15-day-old C57BL/6J X C3HeB/FeJ F1 (B6C3 F1) mice. Groups of eight experimental and eight control mice were killed at 3 days and at 1, 2, 4, 10, 20, 28, 36 and 41 weeks after injection. The only observable acute hepatic toxic effect of DEN, a mild steatosis, was noted at 3 days, but this had disappeared by 7 days following injection. Basophilic foci, composed entirely of altered hepatocytes, were first noted, when very small, at 10 weeks. At later times, some of the foci also contained small collections of proliferated ductules, apparently a result of secondary ingrowth from nearby interlobular bile ducts. The hepatocytes within basophilic foci were characterized by their abundant cytoplasmic RNA, a high nuclear to cytoplasmic ratio (two times greater than normal), which gave them a "crowded appearance," and decreased glucose-6-phosphatase activity. During the course of the study, basophilic foci appeared to increase in size and number. Cytologic anaplasia also became more evident, ultimately culminating in the development of typical trabecular hepatocellular carcinomas by 44 weeks. Invasion of hepatic veins by basophilic foci, first noted at 10 weeks, was prominent by 20 weeks and indicated that many of the lesions manifested this characteristic of malignancy well in advance of the anaplastic features that are also diagnostic of hepatocellular carcinoma. The high growth rates of basophilic foci were confirmed by their greatly increased 3H-thymidine labeling indices, which were 20 times greater than background hepatocytes at 20 weeks following DEN injection. Tumor progression during the course of the study was also suggested by a doubling of labeling indices of hepatocytes in the basophilic foci between 20 to 28 weeks. (The term tumor progression is used in a broad biological sense to encompass any or all of the qualitative and quantitative changes describing the stepwise development of initiated cells to highly malignant neoplasms. This definition differs from the more clinical usage which restricts the process to qualitative changes during the late stages in the development of fully autonomous neoplasms.) An analysis of the number and size of transections through basophilic foci and in some cases, actual reconstructions of the foci from serial sections, indicated that, in aggregate, they grew exponentially between 10 to 36 weeks, with a volume doubling time of 2.5 weeks. The combined morphologic and kinetic data support the view that trabecular hepatocellular carcinomas develop from basophilic foci. Because of their ease of quantitation on conventional H&E stained sections, their rather uniformly spherical shapes, and the high probability of their clonal origin, the induced focal hepatic lesions should provide a useful model for studying tumor growth kinetics during carcinogenesis.
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spelling pubmed-15692512006-09-18 Preneoplastic and neoplastic progression during hepatocarcinogenesis in mice injected with diethylnitrosamine in infancy. Goldfarb, S Pugh, T D Koen, H He, Y Z Environ Health Perspect Research Article Basophilic hepatic foci, nodules, and trabecular hepatocellular carcinomas, collectively referred to as focal hepatic lesions, were induced by single injections of 5.0 micrograms of diethylnitrosamine (DEN) per gram body weight in 15-day-old C57BL/6J X C3HeB/FeJ F1 (B6C3 F1) mice. Groups of eight experimental and eight control mice were killed at 3 days and at 1, 2, 4, 10, 20, 28, 36 and 41 weeks after injection. The only observable acute hepatic toxic effect of DEN, a mild steatosis, was noted at 3 days, but this had disappeared by 7 days following injection. Basophilic foci, composed entirely of altered hepatocytes, were first noted, when very small, at 10 weeks. At later times, some of the foci also contained small collections of proliferated ductules, apparently a result of secondary ingrowth from nearby interlobular bile ducts. The hepatocytes within basophilic foci were characterized by their abundant cytoplasmic RNA, a high nuclear to cytoplasmic ratio (two times greater than normal), which gave them a "crowded appearance," and decreased glucose-6-phosphatase activity. During the course of the study, basophilic foci appeared to increase in size and number. Cytologic anaplasia also became more evident, ultimately culminating in the development of typical trabecular hepatocellular carcinomas by 44 weeks. Invasion of hepatic veins by basophilic foci, first noted at 10 weeks, was prominent by 20 weeks and indicated that many of the lesions manifested this characteristic of malignancy well in advance of the anaplastic features that are also diagnostic of hepatocellular carcinoma. The high growth rates of basophilic foci were confirmed by their greatly increased 3H-thymidine labeling indices, which were 20 times greater than background hepatocytes at 20 weeks following DEN injection. Tumor progression during the course of the study was also suggested by a doubling of labeling indices of hepatocytes in the basophilic foci between 20 to 28 weeks. (The term tumor progression is used in a broad biological sense to encompass any or all of the qualitative and quantitative changes describing the stepwise development of initiated cells to highly malignant neoplasms. This definition differs from the more clinical usage which restricts the process to qualitative changes during the late stages in the development of fully autonomous neoplasms.) An analysis of the number and size of transections through basophilic foci and in some cases, actual reconstructions of the foci from serial sections, indicated that, in aggregate, they grew exponentially between 10 to 36 weeks, with a volume doubling time of 2.5 weeks. The combined morphologic and kinetic data support the view that trabecular hepatocellular carcinomas develop from basophilic foci. Because of their ease of quantitation on conventional H&E stained sections, their rather uniformly spherical shapes, and the high probability of their clonal origin, the induced focal hepatic lesions should provide a useful model for studying tumor growth kinetics during carcinogenesis. 1983-04 /pmc/articles/PMC1569251/ /pubmed/6873010 Text en
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He, Y Z
Preneoplastic and neoplastic progression during hepatocarcinogenesis in mice injected with diethylnitrosamine in infancy.
title Preneoplastic and neoplastic progression during hepatocarcinogenesis in mice injected with diethylnitrosamine in infancy.
title_full Preneoplastic and neoplastic progression during hepatocarcinogenesis in mice injected with diethylnitrosamine in infancy.
title_fullStr Preneoplastic and neoplastic progression during hepatocarcinogenesis in mice injected with diethylnitrosamine in infancy.
title_full_unstemmed Preneoplastic and neoplastic progression during hepatocarcinogenesis in mice injected with diethylnitrosamine in infancy.
title_short Preneoplastic and neoplastic progression during hepatocarcinogenesis in mice injected with diethylnitrosamine in infancy.
title_sort preneoplastic and neoplastic progression during hepatocarcinogenesis in mice injected with diethylnitrosamine in infancy.
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1569251/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6873010
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