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Promotion of hepatic preneoplastic lesions in male B6C3F1 mice by unleaded gasoline.

Abstract
In previous studies, unleaded gasoline (UG) vapor was found to be a liver tumor promoter and hepatocarcinogen in female mice, but UG was not a hepatocarcinogen in male mice. However, UG vapor had similar transient mitogenic effects in nonlesioned liver of both male and female mice under the conditions of the cancer bioassay. We used an initiation-promotion protocol to determine whether UG vapor acts as a liver tumor promoter in male mice and to examine proliferative effects that may be critical to tumor development. Twelve-day-old male B6C3F1 mice were injected with N-nitrosodiethylamine (DEN; 5 mg/kg, intraperitoneally) or vehicle. Starting at 5-7 weeks of age, mice were exposed by inhalation 6 hr/day, 5 days/week for 16 weeks to 0 or 2046 ppm of PS-6 blend UG. UG treatment caused a significant 2.3-fold increase in the number of macroscopic hepatic masses in DEN-initiated mice, whereas no macroscopic masses were observed in non-initiated mice. Altered hepatic foci (AHF), which were predominantly basophilic in phenotype, were found almost exclusively in DEN-initiated mice. UG treatment significantly increased both the mean volume (threefold) and the volume fraction (twofold) of the AHF without increasing the number of AHF per unit area. UG also induced hepatic pentoxyresorufin-O-dealkylase (PROD) activity, a marker of CYP2B, by more than 12-fold over control with or without DEN cotreatment. To study hepatocyte proliferative effects of UG, we treated mice with 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU) via osmotic pump for 3 days before necropsy and measured hepatocyte BrdU labeling index (LI) in AHF and nonlesioned liver.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
AuthorsA M Standeven, D C Wolf, T L Goldsworthy
JournalEnvironmental health perspectives (Environ Health Perspect) 1995 Jul-Aug Vol. 103 Issue 7-8 Pg. 696-700 ISSN: 0091-6765 [Print] United States
PMID7588481 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
Chemical References
  • Gasoline
  • Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System
  • Oxidoreductases
  • Cytochrome P-450 CYP2B1
Topics
  • Animals
  • Cell Division
  • Cytochrome P-450 CYP2B1
  • Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System (metabolism)
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Environmental Exposure
  • Female
  • Gasoline (adverse effects)
  • Liver (enzymology, pathology)
  • Liver Neoplasms, Experimental (chemically induced, pathology)
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C3H
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Oxidoreductases (metabolism)
  • Precancerous Conditions (chemically induced, pathology)

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