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LIPID PEROXIDATION AND ETHANOL-RELATED TUMOR PROMOTION IN FISCHER-344 RATS TREATED WITH TOBACCO-SPECIFIC NITROSAMINES
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*Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology Tucson, AZ 85721, U.S.A.
Department of the Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721, U.S.A.
Department of Surgery Tucson, AZ 85721, U.S.A.
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Received 15 June 1993; first review notified 20 December 1993; accepted 31 January 1994
Male Fischer-344 rats were treated, by gavage, with a total dose of 40 mmol/kg of N' nitrosonomicotine (NNN) or 20 mmol/kg of 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK), three times a week for 4 weeks. One week afterwards the rats were fed an isocaloric liquid diet containing 7% (v/v) ethanol and continued on this diet until killed. Cumulative ethane exhaled by a rat by 180 mm was measured at 54 weeks of the start of the study and was found to increase significantly (P < 0.001) with either NNN or NNK treatment but more so when followed by ethanol consumption. Other indices of lipid peroxidation, cholesterol and phospholipids were measured in the lipid extracts from the liver, esophagus and lungs at 55 weeks. Ethanol consumption increased the amount of cholesterol and phospholipids per g of tissue in naïve or NNN- and NNK-treated rats. All peroxidative indices measured, i.e. malondialdehyde (MDA), diene- and triene-conjugates and lipid fluorescence, were significantly increased in the liver, the main metabolic and peroxidative Site, with ethanol consumption in rats whether they were treated with NNN or NNK or remained untreated. Overall, the indices of lipid peroxidation also showed an increase in other tissues, but the results differed with different indices. The differences in indices may be due to differences in lipid peroxidalion products measured or to differences in their rates of production and degradation or conversion to other products. However, the largest increases in indices were seen with ethanol consumption by either NNN- or NNK treated rats. Incidence of tumors in the tissues was also assessed and showed about a two-fold increase with ethanol consumption in the tumors of esophagus, oral cavity, lungs and liver induced by either NNN or NNK. Ethanol also caused an increase in the mean frequency and mean size of the tumors induced. The results suggest that ethanol-relaxed promotion of NNN- and NNK-induced tumors may result from increased lipid peroxidation in the target tissue.
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