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  • Title: Complementarity between two rat liver tumor promoters.
    Author: Laconi E, Vasudevan S, Rao PM, Rajalakshmi S, Sarma DS.
    Journal: Toxicol Pathol; 1987; 15(2):198-201. PubMed ID: 2887030.
    Abstract:
    A delay in the exposure of initiated rats to orotic acid (OA) beyond a specific time frame results in a progressive loss of promotional effect in liver carcinogenesis. The current study was designed to ascertain whether the loss of promotional effect could be counteracted by pre-exposing the initiated animals to other rat liver promoting regimens such as a diet deficient in choline (CD). Male Fischer 344 rats (150 g) were initiated with diethylnitrosamine (200 mg/kg, ip); 1 week later they were given either a CD diet or a CD diet supplemented with choline for 5 weeks. Animals from these two groups were then fed either a 1% OA diet or the basal diet for another 20 weeks. The results indicated that the loss of OAs promotion efficacy from delaying the start of the promoting regimen can be counteracted by pre-exposing the initiated rats to a CD diet. Thus in rats exposed to OA from the first week of initiation, 7% of the liver developed as nodular areas, whereas only 0.8% of liver was nodular when OA feeding was delayed by 5 weeks. This loss was abolished when initiated rats were fed a CD diet for 5 weeks prior to feeding OA for 20 weeks. These results suggest that in a rat liver tumor promotion model, two tumor promoters, OA and CD, show some degree of complementarity when given sequentially.
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