Carcinogenesis, Vol 19, 1837-1845, Copyright © 1998 by Oxford University Press
LA Hansen, DE Malarkey, JE Wilkinson, M Rosenberg, RE Woychik and RW Tennant
We previously reported that papillomas can arise from the follicular
epithelium of v-Ha-ras transgenic TGxAC mice. Since the viable-yellow
mutation (A(vy)) of the mouse agouti gene which regulates coat color
pigmentation by acting within the micro-environment of the hair follicle
has been shown to function as a tumor promoter in the liver, we
hypothesized that it may also play a role in TGxAC skin tumorigenesis.
Endogenous agouti protein product was detected in the outer root sheath of
anagen hair follicles following plucking of the hair shaft, but not in the
interfollicular epithelium, in TGxAC mice on an FVB/N genetic background.
It was also detected in papillomas from these mice produced by
12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) treatment or plucking.
Expression of the A(vy) allele in the v-Ha-ras transgenic TGxAC mouse line
results in an approximately 2-fold increase in papilloma development
compared with controls which did not carry the A(vy) allele following
twice-weekly treatment with 1.25, 2.5 or 5.0 microg TPA. In addition,
TPA-treated, papilloma-bearing F1 mice which carried the A(vy) allele, but
not F1 mice which did not carry the A(vy) allele, exhibited a syndrome of
humoral hypercalcemia mediated by parathyroid hormone-related protein
(PTHrP) that led to weight loss, hypercalcemia and hypophosphatemia. Thus,
we conclude that the A(vy) allele can influence the development of skin
tumors and PTHrP-mediated humoral hypercalcemia in v-Ha-ras transgenic
TGxAC mice.
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Effect of the viable-yellow (A(vy)) agouti allele on skin tumorigenesis and humoral hypercalcemia in v-Ha-ras transgenic TGxAC mice
Laboratory of Environmental Carcinogenesis and Mutagenesis, National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA.
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