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A chronic inflammatory response. Its role in supporting the development of c-myb and c-myc related promonocytic and monocytic tumors in BALB/c mice.

Abstract
This study demonstrates that an inflammatory response caused by the injection of pristane into the peritoneal cavity of mice provides a useful system for rapid induction of myeloid tumors by retroviruses. Two such tumors, which developed in the peritoneal cavity with average latencies of 68 to 71 d and incidences of greater than 50%, are 1) the McML, mature monocyte-macrophage tumors induced by retroviral constructs containing exons 2 and 3 of c-myc cDNA, and 2) the MML, promonocytic tumors induced by Moloney murine leukemia virus infection and its integration into the c-myb locus. Development of both neoplasms is clearly dependent on the intense i.p. inflammatory response, inasmuch as mice given the viruses and not pristane fail to develop these tumors. Although both types of tumors appear in the peritoneal cavity, the MML tumors that arise by i.v. injection of Moloney murine leukemia virus may actually originate via infection, and perhaps transformation, of precursor hemopoietic cells outside the peritoneal cavity, followed by migration of the cells to the peritoneal cavity. This is suggested by the fact that i.v.v but not i.p. injection of virus is an efficient method of producing these particular myeloid tumors. Although both McML and MML tumors require the inflammatory environment for their development, treatment of mice with a nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drug, indomethacin, has no effect on McML monocyte/macrophage tumors but completely prevents the development of the MML promonocyte tumors.
AuthorsL Wolff, J F Mushinski, G L Shen-Ong, H C Morse 3rd
JournalJournal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) (J Immunol) Vol. 141 Issue 2 Pg. 681-9 (Jul 15 1988) ISSN: 0022-1767 [Print] United States
PMID2838552 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • DNA, Neoplasm
  • Terpenes
  • pristane
Topics
  • Animals
  • Cell Line
  • Chronic Disease
  • DNA, Neoplasm (isolation & purification)
  • Female
  • Inflammation (etiology, genetics, pathology)
  • Leukemia, Monocytic, Acute (etiology, genetics, pathology)
  • Leukemia, Myeloid (etiology, genetics, pathology)
  • Macrophages (pathology)
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred BALB C
  • Moloney murine leukemia virus
  • Phenotype
  • Proto-Oncogenes
  • Retroviridae Infections (genetics, pathology)
  • Terpenes (administration & dosage)

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