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Increase in estrogen receptor levels in MNU-induced thyroid tumors in LE rats

Nariaki Fujimoto, Yoko Sakai and Akihiro Ito

Department of Cancer Research, Research Institute for Nuclear Medicine and Biology, Hiroshima University 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734, Japan

Estrogen receptor (ER) levels were evaluated in thyroid tumors induced by N-methyl-N-nitrosourea (MNU) and low iodine diet (LID) or propylthiouraci) (PTU) in intact and estrogen (E2) loaded Long–Evans (LE) rats. MNU at 40 mg/kg body wt was injected in 50 day-old LE rats of both sexes. The animals were killed 17–22 weeks later and the thyroid tissues were subjected to ER assay. In LID-treated groups, cytosolic ER (cER) levels were 6.7 ± 5.8 (fmol/mg protein, mean ± SE) in females and 0.7 ± 1.4 in males, E2 increased the ER levels. In E2-loaded LID groups, cER levels were 12.9 ± 3.7 in females and 1.7 ± 1.7 in males. PTU treatment produced almost comparable ER levels as LID treatment. PTU treatment as well as LID treatment increased the serum TSH levels with E2 treatment producing additional elevation. In evaluating ER levels by histological type of thyroid tumors, the level in cER plus nER showed the lowest value of 6 ± 6.4 (fmol/mg DNA, mean ± SE) in hyperplasia, followed by 129 ± 52.3 in adenoma and 289 ± 51.7 in carcinoma. The rates of BrdU incorporation in thyroid follicles indicated higher proliferation activity in the area of adenoma and carcinoma rather than in the hyperplastic area. These data suggested that E2 treatment increases the ER levels in MNU and LID/PTU-induced thyroid tumors. The level of ER was correlated to the histological type of thyroid tumors.


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