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  • Title: Identification of mucin-depleted foci in the unsectioned colon of azoxymethane-treated rats: correlation with carcinogenesis.
    Author: Caderni G, Femia AP, Giannini A, Favuzza A, Luceri C, Salvadori M, Dolara P.
    Journal: Cancer Res; 2003 May 15; 63(10):2388-92. PubMed ID: 12750256.
    Abstract:
    We tested the association between aberrant crypt foci (ACF) and tumor induction by feeding azoxymethane-induced rats (15 mg/kg x 2, s.c.) with synbiotics (Raftilose Synergy 1, a derivative of inulin, 10% of the diet, along with lactobacilli and bifidobacteria). After 16 weeks of feeding, synbiotics significantly increased ACF multiplicity. On the contrary, after 32 weeks, synbiotics significantly decreased intestinal tumors. When the same unsectioned colon used for ACF determination was stained with high-iron diamine Alcian blue, foci of crypts with scarce or absent mucins were identified. We defined these lesions as mucin-depleted foci (MDF), and they were visible in all azoxymethane-treated rats and correlated with tumor induction (MDF/colon: 8.2 +/- 0.9 and 3.8 +/- 0.9 in controls and synbiotic-fed rats, respectively, P < 0.01; crypts/MDF: 12.2 +/- 2 and 6.4 +/- 1 in controls and synbiotic-fed rats, respectively, P < 0.05, means +/- SE, n = 7). There were fewer MDF/colon than ACF, and they were histologically more dysplastic than mucinous lesions identified as ACF in high-iron diamine Alcian blue-stained colon. In conclusion, MDF may be premalignant lesions that predict colon carcinogenesis.
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