1. Pathogenesis of skin and liver neoplasms in white suckers from industrially polluted areas in Lake Ontario.
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Hayes MA, Smith IR, Rushmore TH, Crane TL, Thorn C, Kocal TE, and Ferguson HW
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- Animals, Biomarkers analysis, Cypriniformes, Fish Diseases epidemiology, Fish Diseases pathology, Fresh Water, Glutathione Peroxidase metabolism, Glutathione Reductase metabolism, Glutathione Transferase metabolism, Industry, Liver Neoplasms epidemiology, Liver Neoplasms etiology, Liver Neoplasms pathology, Ontario, Papilloma epidemiology, Papilloma etiology, Papilloma pathology, Skin enzymology, Skin pathology, Skin Neoplasms epidemiology, Skin Neoplasms etiology, Skin Neoplasms pathology, Fish Diseases etiology, Liver Neoplasms veterinary, Papilloma veterinary, Skin Neoplasms veterinary, Water Pollution
- Abstract
Increased prevalences of epidermal and hepatobiliary neoplasms in white suckers (Catostomu commersoni) and brown bullheads (Ictalurus nebulosus) in the Western region of Lake Ontario have been associated with industrial pollution, but the identity and causative role of environmental carcinogens have not yet been established. Most epidermal tumors of lip and body skin are benign focal proliferations that occur in fish from the polluted Hamilton region, and also in fish from less polluted sites in the Great Lakes. These skin tumors in white suckers do not have consistent alterations in cellular glutathione S-transferases (GST), suggesting that growth of skin tumors is not promoted by chemicals normally detoxified by GST. However, elevated levels of glutathione peroxidase (GPO) and glutathione reductase (GR) in skin papillomas are indicative of promotional peroxidative tissue injury, either caused directly by xenobiotics or indirectly by chemical-induced inflammation. Liver tumors in white suckers from Lake Ontario include preneoplastic, benign, and malignant populations of hepatocellular and biliary cells, all of which are more prevalent in fish from polluted sites. These liver tumors are consistently associated with chronic cholangiohepatitis and segmental cholangiofibrosis, but these conditions also occur in white suckers in non-industrial locations. Thus, the natural occurrence of biliary disease, not attributable to industrial pollution, may have some influence on the development of liver tumors. Some preneoplastic lesions and the majority of neoplastic hepatocellular and biliary lesions in white suckers have low levels of total GST, indicating that these liver neoplasms are not promoted by xenobiotics normally detoxified by hepatic GSTs.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- 1990
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