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Enhancement of GST-P-positive liver cell foci development by nivalenol, a trichothecene mycotoxin
1Department of Toxicology and Microbial Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Science University of Tokyo Ichigaya, Tokyo 162
2Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Research Institute for Biosciences, Science University of Tokyo Noda, Chiba 278
3Biological Research Laboratories Lederle (Japan) Ltd, Shiki 353
4First Department of Pathology, Nagoya City University Medical School Mizuho-ku, Nagoya 467, Japan
In order to elucidate whether T-2 toxin (T-2) and nivalenol (NIV), the naturally occurring trichothecene mycotoxins in food and feed, are carcinogenic or possess an ability to modulate aflatoxin B1 (AFB1)-induced hepatocarcinogenicity, a medium-term liver bioassay was carried out. F344 male rats were given a single i.p. injection of diethylnitrosamine (DEN, 200 mg/kg), and then fed the test trichothecenes in diet (2 and 5 p.p.m. T-2 or 6 p.p.m. NIV) for 6 weeks beginning 2 weeks after the injection. Some control groups received DEN alone. For synergism between AFB1 and the trichothecenes, DEN-initiated rats as above were given a single i.p. injection of AFB1 (0.5 mg/kg) 2 weeks later and were fed a NIV-containing diet (6 p.p.m.) for 6 weeks. The other control group received the vehicle alone. Control rats not initiated with DEN were also treated with AFB, NIV or T-2 alone as above. All rats were subjected to a two-thirds partial hepatectomy (PH) at week 3 and killed at week 8, and liver sections were analyzed by glutathione S-transferase placental form (GST-P) expression. In rats that did not receive DEN, AFB1 alone enhanced both the numbers and areas of GST-P-positive foci as reported earlier, while NIV or T-2 alone induced no marked changes. In rats initiated with DEN, AFB1 caused a marked expression of GST-P, and thus the hepatocarcinogenicity of AFB1 was reconfirmed. The expression of GST-P foci in rats fed T-2 or NIV was found to be at background level, indicating that the hepatocarcinogenicity was not predicted for the trichothecene mycotoxins such as T-2 and NIV by this medium-term bioassay system. In the group initiated by DEN followed by AFB1, on the other hand, an elevation of both the numbers and areas of GST-P-positive foci was observed by the subsequent feeding of rats with NIV, and this elevation was statistically significant from the sum totals of individual data of AFB1 or NIV alone. From this evidence, it is predicted that NIV causes an enhancing effect on AFB1-induced hepatocarcinogenesis.
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