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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-8-28
pubmed:abstractText
The effect of dietary diphenyl diselenide (1 ppm) on N-nitroso-N-methylurea (NMU)-induced mammary carcinogenesis was examined in female Wistar rats. Beginning at 5 weeks of age, the animals were fed with either control or diphenyl-diselenide-supplied diets until the end of the study (210 days). At 50 days of age, mammary tumor was induced by the administration of three doses of NMU (50 mg/kg body wt, intraperitoneally) once a week for 3 weeks. In experimental trials, latency to tumor onset was extended in rats fed with diet supplemented with diphenyl diselenide (P < 0.05). The incidence and frequency of tumors were significantly small in animals supplemented with diphenyl diselenide. However, the multiplicity of tumors was not altered by dietary diphenyl diselenide. Diphenyl diselenide supplementation also restored superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and vitamin C levels altered in the NMU group (P < 0.05). Our results suggest that diphenyl diselenide can be considered a chemopreventive agent, even when supplemented at a relatively low concentration.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0340-5761
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
82
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
655-63
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18074119-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:18074119-Anticarcinogenic Agents, pubmed-meshheading:18074119-Ascorbic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:18074119-Benzene Derivatives, pubmed-meshheading:18074119-Biological Markers, pubmed-meshheading:18074119-Body Weight, pubmed-meshheading:18074119-Carcinogens, pubmed-meshheading:18074119-Comet Assay, pubmed-meshheading:18074119-Diet, pubmed-meshheading:18074119-Female, pubmed-meshheading:18074119-Lipid Peroxidation, pubmed-meshheading:18074119-Liver, pubmed-meshheading:18074119-Mammary Neoplasms, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:18074119-Methylnitrosourea, pubmed-meshheading:18074119-Neoplasm Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:18074119-Organ Size, pubmed-meshheading:18074119-Organoselenium Compounds, pubmed-meshheading:18074119-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:18074119-Rats, Wistar, pubmed-meshheading:18074119-Superoxide Dismutase
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Diphenyl diselenide supplementation delays the development of N-nitroso-N-methylurea-induced mammary tumors.
pubmed:affiliation
Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria-UNIPAMPA, Rua Domingos de Almeida, São Miguel, Uruguaiana, RS, Brazil. nvbarbosa@yahoo.com.br
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't