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Cell proliferation and cell death (apoptosis) in hepatic preneoplasia and neoplasia are closely related to phenotypic cellular diversity and instability
Abteilung für Cytopathologie
1Abteilung für Biostatistik Deutschcs Krebsforschungszentrum, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280. 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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Preneoplastic and neoplastic hepatic lesions were induced in male Sprague–Dawley rats by oral exposure to N-nltrosomorpholine (12 mg/kg body wt/day) for 7 weeks (stop model). Twelve, 23 and 34 weeks after withdrawal of the carcinogen, cell proliferation and cell death (apoptosis) were studied in defined phenotypes of preneo-plastic foci of altered hepatocytes (FAH), hepatocellular adenomas (HCA) and carcinomas (HCC) by autoradiographic determination of the labelling index (LI) resulting from continuous administration of [3H] for 48 h and by simultaneous counting of apoptotic bodies respectively. Compared with the liver parenchyma of untreated controls and the extrafocal parenchyma of treated animals, the mean LI was elevated in all types of FAH, HCA and HCC, but the extent of this increase differed markedly between the diverse phenotypes. The increase in the LI was significant for clear/acidophilic, intermediate and mixed/ basophilic cell foci, but remained insignificant for the relatively rare tigroid and amphophilic cell foci. The previously established progression-linked phenotypic instability in the predominant cell lineage leading to HCC was associated with a gradual increase in the mean LI showing four significantly different proliferative stages: (i) clear/acidophilic and intermediate cell foci excessively storing glycogen, (ii) mixed/basophilic cell populations in FAH and glycogen-storing HCA, (iii) glycogen-poor HCA and glycogen-storing HCC and (iv) glycogen-poor HCC. The inverse correlation between glycogen accumulation and cell proliferation during progression from glycogenotic FAH to glycogen-poor HCC indicates that the fundamental metabolic shift associated with the gradual disappearance of the glycogenosis is essential for the evolution of the malignant phenotype. The mean ratio of necrotic cells (RN) was somewhat higher in all types of FAH compared to the normal and extrafocal liver parenchyma, but this was not statistically signilicant. Only when HCA and HCC appeared was there a significant increase in the mean RN, proceeding with the progression of neoplastic development. Our results do not support the concept that cell death (apoptosis) plays a major role in counterbalancing cell replication in FAH, but rather suggest that cell death occurs more frequently in the course of hepatocarcinogenesis the more neoplastic development advances.
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