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The inhibition by methionine and choline of liver carcinoma formation in male C3H mice dosed with diethylnitrosamine and fed phenobarbital
1National Center for Toxicological Research Jefferson, AR 72079
2Frederick Cancer Research Facility Frederick, MD 21701, USA
3Present address: Veteran's Administration Hospital, Manhattan, New York, NY 10010, USA
4Present address: City of New York, Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Environmental Management, Division of Hazardous Materials Program, 346 Broadway, Room 906G, New York, NY 10013, USA
5Present address: Pathophysiology Division, USAMRIID, Ft. Detrick, Frederick, MD 21701-5011, USA
6To whom reprint requests should be addressed
The ability of the dietary methyl donors methionine and choline to inhibit the carcinogenic and tumor-promoting effects of phenobarbital (PB) in the livers of male weanling C3H mice was examined. The mice were fed a commercial rodent diet with or without 0.05% PB. Thirty animals from each set received the diet with either: (1) no dietary supple mentatIon, (2) an additional 1.0% choline chloride, (3) 1.5% DL-methiomne or (4) both 1.5% DL-methlonine and 1.0% choline chloride. Additional groups of 30 animals with the same eight dietary and PB-treatment regimens described above were given a single initiating dose of 150 mg diethylnitrosamine (DENA)/kg body wt dissolved in saline, or the saline solution only, 1 week prior to the start of PB feeding. The 16 treatment groups were fed their respective diets for 12 months. Statistical trend analysis showed that increasing levels of supplemental methyl donors gave highly significant protection in PB-treated mice (P < 0.01). The incidence of liver carcinomas in the four dietary groups not receiving PB or DENA varied from 0 to 7%. The PB-treated animals not receiving an initiating dose of DENA developed hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) at incidences of 79% in group 1 animals, 74% in group 2 animals, 60% in group 3 animals, and 31% in group 2 animals respectively. Thus, incidence of HCCs in group 4 was significantly lower than in groups 1, 2 or 3 (P < 0.01). However, the total incidence of liver tumors (adenomas plus carcinomas) was about the same in all DENA or PB-treated groups. Thus, dietary supplementation with methyl donors increased the proportion of animals bearing liver adenomas as their most advanced hepatic lesion in PB-treated mice. In DENA-treated mice fed PB, dietary supplementation with methionine and choline protected against the formation of liver carcinomas (P < 0.02); however, methionine and choline had no significant effect on liver tumor formation in mice fed the PB-free diets. Methiomne and choline supplementation gave significant protection against HCC metastases in the lungs of the tumor-bearing mice in groups initiated with DENA followed by PB promotion. These results support the hypothesis that PB exerts it tumorigenic activity in mice at least in part through a physiological insufficiency of labile methyl groups.
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