Carcinogenesis, Vol 18, 2101-2106, Copyright © 1997 by Oxford University Press
SA Leavitt, AB DeAngelo, MH George and JA Ross
Dichloroacetic acid (DCA) is a chlorination byproduct found in finished
drinking water. When administered in drinking water this chemical has been
shown to produce hepatocellular adenomas and carcinomas in B6C3F1 mice over
the animal's lifetime. In this study, we investigated whether mutant
frequencies were increased in mouse liver using treatment protocols that
yielded significant tumor induction. DCA was administered continuously at
either 1.0 or 3.5 g/l in drinking water to male transgenic B6C3F1 mice
harboring the bacterial lacI gene. Groups of five or six animals were
killed at 4, 10 or 60 weeks and livers removed. At both 4 and 10 weeks of
treatment, there was no significant difference in mutant frequency between
the treated and control animals at either dose level. At 60 weeks, mice
treated with 1.0 g/l DCA showed a 1.3-fold increase in mutant frequency
over concurrent controls (P = 0.05). Mice treated with 3.5 g/l DCA for 60
weeks had a 2.3-fold increase in mutant frequency over the concurrent
controls (P = 0.002). The mutation spectrum recovered from mice treated
with 3.5 g/l DCA for 60 weeks contained G:C-->A:T transitions (32.79%)
and G:C-->T:A transversions (21.31%). In contrast, G:C-->A:T
transitions comprised 53.19% of the recovered mutants among control
animals. Although only 19.15% of mutations among the controls were at T:A
sites, 32.79% of the mutations from DCA-treated animals were at T:A sites.
This is consistent with the previous observation that the proportion of
mutations at T:A sites in codon 61 of the H-ras gene was increased in
DCA-induced liver tumors in B6C3F1 mice. The present study demonstrates
DCA-associated mutagenicity in the mouse liver under conditions in which
DCA produces hepatic tumors.
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Assessment of the mutagenicity of dichloroacetic acid in lacI transgenic B6C3F1 mouse liver
Environmental Carcinogenesis Division, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA.
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