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High Sensitivity of LEC Rats with Chronic Hepatitis to Hepatocarcinogenesis: Decreases in Unscheduled and Replicative DNA Synthesis of the Hepatocytes

We carried out the following three experiments to clarify the mechanism of hepatocarcinogenesis in Long‐Evans Cinnamon (LEC) rats. (1) Sensitivity to diethylnitrosamine (DEN): LEC rats (8 and 25 weeks old) without and with hepatitis and age‐matched F344 rats were administered an intraperitoneal inje...

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Autores principales: Sakamoto, Hirofumi, Sawada, Norimasa, Kamimura, Yasuhiro, Enomoto, Katsuhiko, Mori, Michio
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Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 1993
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5919285/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8407564
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1349-7006.1993.tb00186.x
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author Sakamoto, Hirofumi
Sawada, Norimasa
Kamimura, Yasuhiro
Enomoto, Katsuhiko
Mori, Michio
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Sawada, Norimasa
Kamimura, Yasuhiro
Enomoto, Katsuhiko
Mori, Michio
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description We carried out the following three experiments to clarify the mechanism of hepatocarcinogenesis in Long‐Evans Cinnamon (LEC) rats. (1) Sensitivity to diethylnitrosamine (DEN): LEC rats (8 and 25 weeks old) without and with hepatitis and age‐matched F344 rats were administered an intraperitoneal injection of a low dose of DEN. Eight weeks after the injection, the numbers of glutathione‐S‐transferase placental‐form (GST‐P)‐positive foci in the 33‐week‐old LEC rat liver were significantly higher than those in the livers of the other three groups of rats. (2) Potential for unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS): Isolated hepatocytes of 25‐week‐old LEC rats with chronic hepatitis showed about one‐third the level of UDS induced by UV irradiation, as compared to that of age‐matched F344 rats, while no significant difference was found between the UDS of isolated hepatocytes of 8‐week‐old LEC rats and age‐matched F344 rats. (3) Potential for proliferation: Isolated hepatocytes from 8‐week‐old LEC rats responded well to epidermal growth factor (EGF) in culture, to almost the same degree as F344 rat hepatocytes, while a remarkable decrease in the responsiveness of hepatocytes isolated from 25‐week‐old LEC rats to EGF was found. These results suggested that LEC rat hepatocellular carcinoma could be naturally initiated after the onset of hepatitis by carcinogens contaminating food and the environment, probably due to the reduction of DNA repair activity, after which initiated hepatocytes selectively proliferate in response to growth stimuli endogenously produced as a result of continuous loss of hepatocytes (chronic hepatitis), because of a decrease in growth activity of non‐initiated hepatocytes.
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spelling pubmed-59192852018-05-11 High Sensitivity of LEC Rats with Chronic Hepatitis to Hepatocarcinogenesis: Decreases in Unscheduled and Replicative DNA Synthesis of the Hepatocytes Sakamoto, Hirofumi Sawada, Norimasa Kamimura, Yasuhiro Enomoto, Katsuhiko Mori, Michio Jpn J Cancer Res Article We carried out the following three experiments to clarify the mechanism of hepatocarcinogenesis in Long‐Evans Cinnamon (LEC) rats. (1) Sensitivity to diethylnitrosamine (DEN): LEC rats (8 and 25 weeks old) without and with hepatitis and age‐matched F344 rats were administered an intraperitoneal injection of a low dose of DEN. Eight weeks after the injection, the numbers of glutathione‐S‐transferase placental‐form (GST‐P)‐positive foci in the 33‐week‐old LEC rat liver were significantly higher than those in the livers of the other three groups of rats. (2) Potential for unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS): Isolated hepatocytes of 25‐week‐old LEC rats with chronic hepatitis showed about one‐third the level of UDS induced by UV irradiation, as compared to that of age‐matched F344 rats, while no significant difference was found between the UDS of isolated hepatocytes of 8‐week‐old LEC rats and age‐matched F344 rats. (3) Potential for proliferation: Isolated hepatocytes from 8‐week‐old LEC rats responded well to epidermal growth factor (EGF) in culture, to almost the same degree as F344 rat hepatocytes, while a remarkable decrease in the responsiveness of hepatocytes isolated from 25‐week‐old LEC rats to EGF was found. These results suggested that LEC rat hepatocellular carcinoma could be naturally initiated after the onset of hepatitis by carcinogens contaminating food and the environment, probably due to the reduction of DNA repair activity, after which initiated hepatocytes selectively proliferate in response to growth stimuli endogenously produced as a result of continuous loss of hepatocytes (chronic hepatitis), because of a decrease in growth activity of non‐initiated hepatocytes. Blackwell Publishing Ltd 1993-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5919285/ /pubmed/8407564 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1349-7006.1993.tb00186.x Text en
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Sakamoto, Hirofumi
Sawada, Norimasa
Kamimura, Yasuhiro
Enomoto, Katsuhiko
Mori, Michio
High Sensitivity of LEC Rats with Chronic Hepatitis to Hepatocarcinogenesis: Decreases in Unscheduled and Replicative DNA Synthesis of the Hepatocytes
title High Sensitivity of LEC Rats with Chronic Hepatitis to Hepatocarcinogenesis: Decreases in Unscheduled and Replicative DNA Synthesis of the Hepatocytes
title_full High Sensitivity of LEC Rats with Chronic Hepatitis to Hepatocarcinogenesis: Decreases in Unscheduled and Replicative DNA Synthesis of the Hepatocytes
title_fullStr High Sensitivity of LEC Rats with Chronic Hepatitis to Hepatocarcinogenesis: Decreases in Unscheduled and Replicative DNA Synthesis of the Hepatocytes
title_full_unstemmed High Sensitivity of LEC Rats with Chronic Hepatitis to Hepatocarcinogenesis: Decreases in Unscheduled and Replicative DNA Synthesis of the Hepatocytes
title_short High Sensitivity of LEC Rats with Chronic Hepatitis to Hepatocarcinogenesis: Decreases in Unscheduled and Replicative DNA Synthesis of the Hepatocytes
title_sort high sensitivity of lec rats with chronic hepatitis to hepatocarcinogenesis: decreases in unscheduled and replicative dna synthesis of the hepatocytes
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5919285/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8407564
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1349-7006.1993.tb00186.x
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