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Prevention of rat hepatocarcinogenesis by acyclic retinoid is accompanied by reduction in emergence of both TGF-alpha-expressing oval-like cells and activated hepatic stellate cells
- Source :
- Nutrition and cancer. 51(2)
- Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- We investigated the preventive effects of a synthetic acyclic retinoid, NIK-333, on the early and late events of hepatocarcinogenesis in male F344 rats treated with 3'-methyl-4-dimethylaminoazobenzene (3'-MeDAB). NIK-333 was administered once a day on consecutive days at a dose of 10, 40, or 80 mg/kg body weight along with the supplementation with 3'-MeDAB-containing diet for 16 wk. Animals from each group were sacrificed at 4 and 16 wk after the commencement of the experiment to determine the effect of NIK-333 on the early and late stages of carcinogenesis, respectively. NIK-333 suppressed the emergence of both oval-like cells expressing transforming growth factor (TGF)-alpha, putative progenitors of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and activated hepatic stellate cells, major matrix-producing cells of the liver, in the early stage and inhibited the incidence of HCC in the late phase. These results suggest that NIK-333 is a promising drug for the chemoprevention of HCC by uniquely suppressing the early events of hepatocarcinogenesis, that is, development of both oval-like cells and fibrogenesis.
- Subjects :
- Adenoma
Male
Cancer Research
medicine.medical_specialty
TGF alpha
Time Factors
medicine.drug_class
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Antineoplastic Agents
Tretinoin
Biology
medicine.disease_cause
Retinoids
Liver Neoplasms, Experimental
Internal medicine
medicine
Animals
Retinoid
Progenitor cell
Methyldimethylaminoazobenzene
Nutrition and Dietetics
Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
Cell growth
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
Carcinoma
Transforming Growth Factor alpha
medicine.disease
Fibrosis
Actins
Rats, Inbred F344
Rats
Disease Models, Animal
Endocrinology
Oncology
Liver
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Hepatic stellate cell
Disease Progression
Carcinogenesis
Transforming growth factor
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 01635581
- Volume :
- 51
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nutrition and cancer
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....890828485c07423c0fdaf4eed732fd71