Gene expression analysis on the dicyclanil-induced hepatocellular tumors in mice

Toxicol Pathol. 2006;34(6):744-51. doi: 10.1080/01926230600932471.

Abstract

Our previous studies showed the possibility that oxidative stress, including oxidative DNA damage, is involved in the mechanism of dicyclanil (DC)-induced hepatocarcinogenesis at the preneoplastic stage in mice. In this study, the expression analyses of genes, including oxidative stress-related genes, were performed on the tissues of hepatocellular tumors in a two-stage liver carcinogenesis model in mice. After partial hepatectomy, male ICR mice were injected with N-diethylnitrosamine (DEN) and given a diet containing 0 or 1500 ppm of DC for 20 weeks. Histopathological examinations revealed that the incidence of hepatocellular tumors (adenomas and carcinomas) significantly increased in the DEN + DC group. Gene expression analysis on the microdissected liver tissues of the mice in the DEN + DC group showed the highest expression levels of oxidative stress-related genes, such as Cyp1a1 and Txnrd1, in the tumor areas. However, no remarkable up-regulation of Ogg1-an oxidative DNA damage repair gene-was observed in the tumor areas, but the expression of Trail-an apoptosis-signaling ligand gene-was significantly down-regulated in the tumor tissues. These results suggest the possibility that the inhibition of apoptosis and a failure in the ability to repair oxidative DNA damage occur in the hepatocellular DC-induced tumors in mice.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Apoptosis / genetics
  • Body Weight / drug effects
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / chemically induced
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / genetics
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / pathology*
  • Cocarcinogenesis
  • DNA Repair Enzymes / genetics
  • Diethylnitrosamine
  • Gene Expression Profiling*
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic / drug effects*
  • Hepatectomy
  • Juvenile Hormones / toxicity
  • Lasers
  • Liver / drug effects
  • Liver / pathology
  • Liver Neoplasms, Experimental / chemically induced
  • Liver Neoplasms, Experimental / genetics
  • Liver Neoplasms, Experimental / pathology*
  • Male
  • Metabolic Networks and Pathways / genetics
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred ICR
  • Microdissection / methods
  • Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
  • Oxidative Stress / genetics
  • Precancerous Conditions / chemically induced
  • Precancerous Conditions / genetics
  • Precancerous Conditions / pathology*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction

Substances

  • Juvenile Hormones
  • Diethylnitrosamine
  • dicyclanil
  • DNA Repair Enzymes