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Induction of invasive carcinomas of the seminal vesicles and coagulating glands of F344 rats by administration of N-methyl-nitrosourea or N-nitrosobis(2-oxopropyl)amine and followed by testosterone propionate with or without high-fat diet

Tomoyuki Shirai 1, Atsushi Yamamoto, Shogo Iwasaki, Seiko Tamano and Tsuneo Masui

First Department of Pathololgy, Nagoya City University Medical School Kawasumi, Mizuho-cho, Mizuho-ku, Nagoya 467, Japan

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The potential modifying effects of testosterone propionate (TP) and high-caloric high-fat diet (20% corn oil, HF) on rat accessory sex gland carcinogenesis were investigated. Male F344 rats were treated five times at 4-week intervals with N-methylnitrosourea (MNU) i.v. or N-nitrosobis(2-oxo-propyl)amine (BOP) s.c, each injection following 2 weeks pretreatment with dietary ethinyl estradiol. After completion of this carcinogen administration stage, animal groups received subcutaneous implantation of Silastic tubes filled with 40 mg TP with or without HF for 40 weeks. Carcinomas of the seminal vesicles and/or coagulating glands were induced in 5, 39 and 56% of rats given MNU alone, MNU and TP, and MNU and HF plus TP respectively. No equivalent tumors were found in rats given MNU and HF. In the BOP-treated groups, 11% of animals receiving TP but no HF diet demonstrated seminal vesicle carcinomas and 6% of rats receiving TP plus HF diet had coagulating gland carcinoma. Thus while TP exerted a strong enhancing effect on tumor growth in the seminal vesicles and coagulating glands, high caloric HF did not manifest any significant influence.


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