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Nonspecific esterase reaction in hyperplastic urinary bladder epithelium induced by administration of N-butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl)nitrosamine, freezing and formalin instillation in rats.

Abstract
Chronological changes in nonspecific esterase (NSE) activity in hyperplasia of the bladder mucosa in Wistar rats induced by the administration of 0.05% N-butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl)nitrosamine (BBN) in their drinking water for up to 20 weeks and in reversible regenerative hyperplasia by freeze ulceration and 20% formalin instillation in the bladder were compared. In regenerative hyperplasia foci with strong NSE activity could not be proved throughout the experimental period, while the foci were detected in hyperplastic epithelium induced by BBN treatment for more than 3 weeks. The focus of NSE high activity persisted for 56 weeks after withdrawal of the carcinogen and the focus or area with the same NSE reaction appeared in papilloma and transitional cell carcinoma seen in weeks 7 to 20 of BBN treatment. The appearance of focal strong activity of NSE seemed to be a promising marker for the precursor lesions of bladder tumors. Short uniform, pleomorphic microvilli were observed on the cell surface of preneoplastic and carcinomatous lesions by BBN as well as on that of regenerative hyperplasia after freeze ulceration and formalin instillation.
AuthorsA Akagi, H Otsuka
JournalBritish journal of experimental pathology (Br J Exp Pathol) Vol. 69 Issue 3 Pg. 367-77 (Jun 1988) ISSN: 0007-1021 [Print] England
PMID3390388 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Biomarkers, Tumor
  • Formaldehyde
  • Butylhydroxybutylnitrosamine
  • Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases
  • Carboxylesterase
Topics
  • Animals
  • Biomarkers, Tumor (biosynthesis)
  • Butylhydroxybutylnitrosamine
  • Carboxylesterase
  • Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases (metabolism)
  • Epithelium (enzymology)
  • Formaldehyde
  • Freezing
  • Hyperplasia (etiology, pathology)
  • Male
  • Precancerous Conditions (enzymology)
  • Rats
  • Rats, Inbred Strains
  • Urinary Bladder (enzymology, pathology)
  • Urinary Bladder Neoplasms (chemically induced, enzymology)

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