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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-9-22
pubmed:abstractText
In an initial study to determine if rosiglitazone had chemopreventive activity, Fischer-344 female rats were administered twice weekly doses of hydroxybutyl(butyl)nitrosamine (OH-BBN), a urinary bladder specific carcinogen, for 8 weeks. Two weeks following the last dose of OH-BBN, rats were administered rosiglitazone (50 mg/kg BW) daily by gavage for the remainder of the study (7 months). Only 57% of OH-BBN-treated animals developed palpable urinary bladder cancers during the course of the study, while all of the OH-BBN plus rosiglitazone treated rats developed large cancers (p < 0.01). Surprisingly, examination for PPAR gamma by immunohistochemistry in the urinary bladders of rats showed that while untreated bladder urothelium and preneoplastic lesions clearly expressed PPAR gamma, frank carcinomas exhibited significantly lower levels. This was confirmed by employing microarray studies of the same samples. In additional studies, lower doses of rosiglitazone (10, 2 and 0.4 mg/kg BW/day) were administered. The 10 mg/kg BW/day dose greatly enhanced bladder cancer incidence (p < 0.01). The dose of 2 mg/kg BW/day, which is roughly equivalent to a standard human dose, also significantly increased bladder cancer incidence (controls, 48%; rosiglitazone-treated, 84%). The lowest dose did not significantly increase tumor incidence (rosiglitazone at 0.4 mg/kg BW/day, 64%) or tumor weight in the rats, although there was a trend in that direction. Rosiglitazone alone (10 mg/kg BW/day) given in the absence of OH-BBN did not result in bladder cancer formation when given for 10 months. In summary, rosiglitazone over a wide dose range enhanced urinary bladder carcinogenesis in the OH-BBN model in rats.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1097-0215
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
(c) 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
123
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2254-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Rosiglitazone, a PPAR gamma agonist: potent promoter of hydroxybutyl(butyl)nitrosamine-induced urinary bladder cancers.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA. lubetr@mail.nih.gov
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural