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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-10-17
pubmed:abstractText
The effect of dietary fat and ethanol and their interactions on the development of putative, preneoplastic foci in exocrine pancreas was investigated in rats and hamsters. Rats were given a single i.p. injection of 30 mg azaserine per kg body wt at 19 days of age. Hamsters were injected s.c., with 20 mg N-nitrosobis(2-oxopropyl)amine (BOP)/kg body wt at 6 and 7 weeks of age. The animals were fed a low fat (LF) control diet (5% corn oil) or a high fat (HF) diet (25% corn oil). Ethanol was provided in drinking water at a 15% (w/v) concentration. The animals were given the respective diets and ethanol after the treatment with carcinogen. At 4 months post-initiation, the pancreata were quantitatively examined for the number and size of preneoplastic foci. In rats, acidophilic as well as basophilic foci were subject to modulation by HF and ethanol. The results point to a specific promoting effect of unsaturated fat on the growth potential of azaserine-induced acidophilic acinar cell foci in rat pancreas. There was no evidence of an interaction between HF and ethanol as far as acidophilic foci are concerned. Evaluation of the number and size of the basophilic foci demonstrated an enhancing effect of ethanol on the modulation of pancreatic carcinogenesis by fat, pointing to a possible interaction between these two lifestyle factors. This suggestion was supported by the finding that six out of 20 rats in the HF with ethanol group exhibited a carcinoma in situ, whereas in the HF and in the ethanol group such an advanced lesion was found in one animal only. Unlike in rats, ethanol had no modulating effect on number and growth of putative, preneoplastic lesions in hamsters, either in combination with LF or in combination with HF. A HF diet, however, caused a significant increase in number as well as an increase in percentage of pancreatic tissue occupied by early lesions induced in hamster pancreas by BOP.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0143-3334
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1587-93
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Modulation of putative preneoplastic foci in exocrine pancreas of rats and hamsters. I. Interaction of dietary fat and ethanol.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't