Comparison of uroplakin expression during urothelial carcinogenesis induced by N-butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl)nitrosamine in rats and mice
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1999-12-08
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Ogawa, Kumiko
St. John, Margaret
De Oliveira, Maria Luiza [UNESP]
Arnold, Lora
Shirai, Tomoyuki
Sun, Tung-Tien
Cohen, Samuel Monroe [UNESP]
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The expression of uroplakins, the tissue-specific and differentiation- dependent membrane proteins of the urothelium, was analyzed immunohistochemically in N butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl)nitrosamine (BBN)-treated rats and mice during bladder carcinogenesis. Male Fischer 344 rats were treated with 0.05% BBN in the drinking water for 10 wk and were cuthanatized at week 20 of the experiment. BBN was administered to male B6D2F1 mice; it was either provided at a rate of 0.05% in the drinking water (for 26 wk) or 5 mg BBN was administered by intragastric gavage twice weekly for 10 wk, followed by 20 wk without treatment. In rats, BBN-induced, noninvasive, low grade, papillary, transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) showed decreased uroplakin-staining of cells lining the lumen but showed increased expression in some nonluminal cells. In mice, nonpapillary, high-grade dysplasia, carcinoma in situ, and invasive carcinoma were induced. There was a marked decrease in the number of uroplakin-positive cells lining the lumen and in nonluminal cells. This occurred in normal-appearing urothelium in BBN-treated mice and in dysplasic urothelium, in carcinoma in situ, and in invasive TCC. The percentage of uroplakin-positive nonluminal cells was higher in control mice than in rats, but it was lower in the mouse than in the rat after BBN treatment. Uroplakin expression was disorderly and focal in BBN-treated urothelium in both species. These results indicate that BBN treatment changed the expression of uroplakins during bladder carcinogenesis, with differences in rats and mice being related to degree of tumor differentiation.
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Bladder cancer, Cell membranes, Differentiation, Uroplakins, drinking water, membrane protein, n butyl n (4 hydroxybutyl)nitrosamine, animal experiment, animal model, bladder cancer, bladder carcinogenesis, cancer grading, carcinoma in situ, dysplasia, immunohistochemistry, male, mouse, nonhuman, priority journal, protein expression, rat, review, stomach lavage, transitional cell carcinoma, tumor differentiation, Animals, Butylhydroxybutylnitrosamine, Carcinogenicity Tests, Carcinogens, Carcinoma, Cell Count, Immunohistochemistry, Male, Membrane Glycoproteins, Membrane Proteins, Mice, Rats, Rats, Inbred F344, Urinary Bladder Neoplasms, Urothelium
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Toxicologic Pathology, v. 27, n. 6, p. 645-651, 1999.