Persistent chemopreventive effect of S-adenosyl-L-methionine on the development of liver puptative preneoplastic lesions induced by thiobenzamide in diethylnitrosamine-initiated rats
| Autor: | Michela Saviozzi, A. Nufris, Maria Rosaria De Miglio, Maria Rosaria Muroni, Maria Maddalena Simile, Gino Malvaldi, Rosa Maria Pascale, Francesco Feo |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Male
S-Adenosylmethionine Cancer Research medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Genes myc F344 rats Gene Expression Ornithine Decarboxylase medicine.disease_cause Ornithine decarboxylase S-Adenosyl-l-methionine Internal medicine medicine Animals Anticarcinogenic Agents Diethylnitrosamine RNA Messenger Odc activity Anticarcinogen DNA synthesis business.industry Liver Neoplasms DNA gamma-Glutamyltransferase General Medicine Rats Inbred F344 Rats Thioamides Genes ras Endocrinology Liver Carcinogens Carcinogenesis business Precancerous Conditions Tb treatment |
| Zdroj: | Carcinogenesis. 17:1533-1537 |
| ISSN: | 1460-2180 0143-3334 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/carcin/17.7.1533 |
| Popis: | S-Adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) is a strong chemo-preventive agent of rat liver carcinogenesis. Examination was made to determine whether inhibition by SAM of the development of preneoplastic liver lesions persists to SAM withdrawal in diethylnitrosamine-initiated F344 rats promoted with thiobenzamide (TB). The rats were subjected, 2 weeks after initiation, to 5 weeks feeding with a 0.1% TBdiet followed by a TB-free diet for 6 weeks and then by a second TB treatment for 3 weeks. SAM (384 µmol/kg/day) was injected i.m. during the first TB cycle (treatment A) or for 6 weeks after the first TB cycle (treatment B). Many ϒ-glutamyltranspeptidase (GGT)-positive lesions developed in initiated rats after the first TB cycle. They decreased in number after TB withdrawal, while partial recovery of lesion number and a great increase in volume occurred after the second TB cycle. Liver ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity and c- myc and c-Ha- ras mRNAs increased during the TB cycle. Liver ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity and c- myc and c- ras mRNAs increased during the TB cycles and returned to normal liver values after TB withdrawal. Number and size of GGT-positive lesions, DNA synthesis of GGT-positive cells, liver ODC activity and c- myc and c-Ha- ras mRNA levels decreased as a consequence of SAM treatment A. The recovery of these parameters, induced by a second TB cycle in rats not treated with SAM, was prevented by SAM treatment B. These results suggest that SAM causes a persistent decrease in growth capacity of preneoplastic liver lesions in rats subjected to a diethylnitrosamine/TB protocol. |
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