Reduction in squamous cell carcinomas in mouse skin by dietary zinc supplementation

Autor: Morgan S. Schrock, Louise Y.Y. Fong, Donald Quimby, Kay Huebner, Teresa Druck, Xueliang Pan, James Liu, Jin Sun, Rulong Shen, Nicola Zanesi
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Cancer Medicine
ISSN: 2045-7634
Popis: Inadequate dietary Zn consumption increases susceptibility to esophageal and other cancers in humans and model organisms. Since Zn supplementation can prevent cancers in rodent squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) models, we were interested in determining if it could have a preventive effect in a rodent skin cancer model, as a preclinical basis for considering a role for Zn in prevention of human nonmelanoma skin cancers, the most frequent cancers in humans. We used the 7,12‐dimethyl benzanthracene carcinogen/phorbol myristate acetate tumor promoter treatment method to induce skin tumors in Zn‐sufficient wild‐type and Fhit (human or mouse protein) knockout mice. Fhit protein expression is lost in >50% of human cancers, including skin SCCs, and Fhit‐deficient mice show increased sensitivity to carcinogen induction of tumors. We hypothesized that: (1) the skin cancer burdens would be reduced by Zn supplementation; (2) Fhit −/−(Fhit, murine fragile histidine triad gene) mice would show increased susceptibility to skin tumor induction versus wild‐type mice. 30 weeks after initiating treatment, the tumor burden was increased ~2‐fold in Fhit −/− versus wild‐type mice (16.2 versus 7.6 tumors, P
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