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Miskin R, Masos T, Yahav S, Shinder D, Globerson A. AlphaMUPA mice: a transgenic model for increased life span. Neurobiol Aging 1999; 20:555-64. [PMID: 10638529 DOI: 10.1016/s0197-4580(99)00093-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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AlphaMUPA is a line of transgenic mice that, compared with their wild type (WT) counterparts, spontaneously eat less (approximately 20%) and live longer (average approximately 20%), thus resembling dietary-restricted (DR) mice. Here, we show that body temperature was significantly reduced in alphaMUPA compared with WT throughout a wide range of ages. Plasma corticosterone was significantly higher in young alphaMUPA compared to young WT; however, it significantly declined in aged alphaMUPA, but not in aged WT. In addition, age-associated thymus involution occurred in alphaMUPA as it did in WT. Thus alphaMUPA mice appear to largely resemble, but also to somewhat differ from diet-restricted animals. We also report on four new transgenic lines that, like alphaMUPA, produced in the brain the mRNA that encodes the extracellular protease urokinase (uPA); however, transgenic uPA expression was most extensive and widespread in the alphaMUPA brain, where it also occurred in the hypothalamus. AlphaMUPA was also the only line that ate less, but also showed another characteristic, high frequency leg muscle tremor seen only at unstable body states. We hypothesize that transgenic uPA in the brain could have caused the alphaMUPA phenotypic alterations. Thus alphaMUPA offers a unique transgenic model of inherently reduced eating to investigate the homeostatic state of delayed aging at the systemic and single-cell levels.
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- R Miskin
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Immunology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
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Hursting SD, Kari FW. The anti-carcinogenic effects of dietary restriction: mechanisms and future directions. Mutat Res 1999; 443:235-49. [PMID: 10415442 DOI: 10.1016/s1383-5742(99)00021-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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- S D Hursting
- Departments of Epidemiology and Carcinogenesis, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX (SDH), USA
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Minamoto T, Mai M, Ronai Z. Environmental factors as regulators and effectors of multistep carcinogenesis. Carcinogenesis 1999; 20:519-27. [PMID: 10223177 DOI: 10.1093/carcin/20.4.519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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This review highlights current knowledge of environmental factors in carcinogenesis and their cellular targets. The hypothesis that environmental factors influence carcinogenesis is widely supported by both epidemiological and experimental studies. The fact that only a small fraction of cancers can be attributed to germline mutations in cancer-related genes further buttresses the importance of environmental factors in carcinogenesis. Furthermore, penetrance of germline mutations may be modified by either environmental or other genetic factors. Examples of environmental factors that have been associated with increased cancer risk in the human population include chemical and physical mutagens (e.g. cigarette smoke, heterocyclic amines, asbestos and UV irradiation), infection by certain viral or bacterial pathogens, and dietary non-genotoxic constituents (e.g. macro- and micronutrients). Among molecular targets of environmental influences on carcinogenesis are somatic mutation (genetic change) and aberrant DNA methylation (epigenetic change) at the genomic level and post-translational modifications at the protein level. At both levels, changes elicited affect either the stability or the activity of key regulatory proteins, including oncoproteins and tumor suppressor proteins. Together, via multiple genetic and epigenetic lesions, environmental factors modulate important changes in the pathway of cellular carcinogenesis.
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- T Minamoto
- Ruttenberg Cancer Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
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Chou MW, Chen W, Mikhailova MV, Nichols J, Weis C, Jackson CD, Hart RW, Chung KT. Dietary restriction modulated carcinogen-DNA adduct formation and the carcinogen-induced DNA strand breaks. Toxicol Lett 1997; 92:21-30. [PMID: 9242354 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4274(97)00029-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Dietary restriction (DR) alters the activities of hepatic drug metabolizing enzymes and modulates the formation of carcinogen-DNA adducts in carcinogen treated animals. Our previous results showed that a 40% restriction of diet (60% of ad libitum (AL) food consumption) reduced the hepatic metabolic activation of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) but increased the activation of benzo[a]-pyrene (BaP) in both rats and mice. In this study, the focus was directed toward the levels of carcinogen-DNA adducts formation and the carcinogen-induced DNA strand breaks in mouse kidney and liver DNA. DR significantly inhibited both AFB1-DNA adduct formation and AFB1-induced DNA strand breaks in kidney DNA of mice that received a single dose of [3H]AFB1 (5 mg/kg). The levels of AFB1-DNA adduct formation in mouse kidney DNA correlated well with increased AFB1-induced DNA strand breaks. The correlation between the levels of AFB1-DNA-adducts formed and DNA strand breaks in kidney DNA of DR-mice was less linear than between its AL-counterpart suggesting that other factors, such as different rates of DNA repair, may be involved. In addition, DR enhanced hepatic BaP- and 6-nitrochrysene (6-NC)-DNA adduct formation in the mice treated with BaP and 6-NC, respectively. The formation of the specific BaP-adduct, 10-(N2-deoxyguanosinyl)-7,8,9-trihydroxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydro-BaP (N2-dG-BaP), in mouse liver was proportional to the dose, and was compatible to the BaP-induced DNA strand breaks affected by DR. The enhancement of the total 6-NC-DNA adduct formation in DR-mouse was also in correlation with the increased 6-NC-induced DNA strand breaks. The activity of mouse liver microsomal nitro-reductase increased by 2-fold in response to DR indicating that the nitroreduction may contribute to the increase of the metabolic activation of 6-NC. Our present results indicate that the effect of DR on the carcinogen activation is dependent upon the DR-modulated carcinogen metabolizing enzyme activities.
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- M W Chou
- National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, AR 72079, USA
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Fang JY, Xiao SD, Zhu SS, Yuan JM, Qiu DK, Jiang SJ. Relationship of plasma folic acid and status of DNA methylation in human gastric cancer. J Gastroenterol 1997; 32:171-5. [PMID: 9085163 DOI: 10.1007/bf02936363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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To evaluate the anti-cancer effects of folic acid at the molecular level, we determined plasma folic acid concentration by radioimmuno-assay and the degree of total genomic DNA methylation by incubating DNA with 3H-S-adenosylmethionine (3H-SAM) in the presence of a methylase, and analyzed the methylation status of the c-myc and c-Ha-ras oncogenes by Southern blotting in 21 patients with advanced gastric cancer. The degree of total genomic DNA methylation of cancerous tissues was significantly lower than that of paracancerous and non-cancerous tissues; c-myc and c-Ha-ras oncogenes from cancerous (10/21, 5/10) and paracancerous (13/21, 4/10) tissues were hypomethylated. The plasma folic acid concentration in patients who showed hypomethylation was lower than that patients showing normal methylation. These findings suggest that a decrease in folic acid, and the subsequent DNA hypomethylation, may be involved in human gastric carcinogenesis.
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- J Y Fang
- Shanghai Second Medical University, Shanghai Ren-Ji Hospital, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease (200001), People's Republic of China
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Yoshida K, Inoue T, Nojima K, Hirabayashi Y, Sado T. Calorie restriction reduces the incidence of myeloid leukemia induced by a single whole-body radiation in C3H/He mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1997; 94:2615-9. [PMID: 9122244 PMCID: PMC20137 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.6.2615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Dietary restriction, especially caloric restriction, is a major modifier in experimental carcinogenesis and is known to decrease significantly the incidence of neoplasms. Gross and Dreyfuss [Gross, L. & Dreyfuss, Y. (1984) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 81, 7596-7598; Gross, L. & Dreyfuss, Y. (1986) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 83, 7928-7931] reported that a 36% restriction in caloric intake dramatically decreased the radiation-induced solid tumors and/or leukemias. Their protocol predominantly produced lymphatic neoplasms. It is of interest to observe the effect of caloric restriction on radiation-induced myeloid leukemia, because the disease was observed to have been increased in the survivors of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The spontaneous incidence of myeloid leukemia in C3H/He male mice is 1%, and the incidence increased to 23.3% when 3 Gy of whole-body x-ray irradiation was given. However, the incidence of myeloid leukemia was found to be significantly decreased by caloric restriction; it was reduced to 7.9% and 10.7% when restriction was started before (6 weeks old) and after (10 weeks old) irradiation, respectively. In addition, the onset of the myeloid leukemia in both restricted groups was prolonged to a greater extent as compared with the control diet group. Caloric restriction demonstrated a significant prolongation of the life span in the groups on a restricted diet after having been exposed to irradiation, either before or after dietary restriction, in comparison with mice that were only irradiated.
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- K Yoshida
- Division of Biology and Oncology, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Inage-ku, Chiba, Japan.
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Fang JY, Zhu SS, Xiao SD, Jiang SJ, Shi Y, Chen XY, Zhou XM, Qian LF. Studies on the hypomethylation of c-myc, c-Ha-ras oncogenes and histopathological changes in human gastric carcinoma. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 1996; 11:1079-82. [PMID: 8985834 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.1996.tb00040.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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In order to study the status of DNA methylation of specific oncogenes and the relationship between them and the pathological changes in gastric carcinoma, we analysed the methylated status of c-myc, c-Ha-ras oncogenes by Southern blot hybridization. Genomic DNA from cancerous, paracancerous and non-cancerous areas of surgically resected specimens were examined in 22 cases of advanced human gastric carcinoma. Specimens were digested by the restriction endonucleases MspI/HpaII, which are able to cleave between methylated and non-methylated cytosine at their nucleotide recognition site the DNA 5'-CCGG sequence, and were hybridized with c-myc, c-Ha-ras oncogene probes. Moreover, the corresponding pathological changes in gastric carcinoma were observed. The results showed that c-myc, c-Ha-ras oncogenes from cancerous (10/22, 5/10) and paracancerous areas (13/22, 4/10) were hypomethylated and that there was no significant relationship between them and the histopathological changes.
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- J Y Fang
- Shanghai Second Medical University Affiliated Ren-Ji Hospital, Shanghai Institute of Digestive Disease, People's Republic of China
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Hass BS, Lewis SM, Duffy PH, Ershler W, Feuers RJ, Good RA, Ingram DK, Lane MA, Leakey JE, Lipschitz D, Poehlman ET, Roth GS, Sprott RL, Sullivan DH, Turturro A, Verdery RB, Walford RL, Weindruch R, Yu BP, Hart RW. Dietary restriction in humans: report on the Little Rock Conference on the value, feasibility, and parameters of a proposed study. Mech Ageing Dev 1996; 91:79-94. [PMID: 8905607 DOI: 10.1016/0047-6374(96)01775-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- B S Hass
- National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, AR 72079, USA.
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Martin GM, Austad SN, Johnson TE. Genetic analysis of ageing: role of oxidative damage and environmental stresses. Nat Genet 1996; 13:25-34. [PMID: 8673100 DOI: 10.1038/ng0596-25] [Citation(s) in RCA: 430] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Evolutionary theory predicts substantial interspecific and intraspecific differences in the proximal mechanisms of ageing. Our goal here is to seek evidence for common ('public') mechanisms among diverse organisms amenable to genetic analysis. Oxidative damage is a candidate for such a public mechanism of ageing. Long-lived strains are relatively resistant to different environmental stresses. The extent to which these stresses produce oxidative damage remains to be established.
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- G M Martin
- Department of Pathology and Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7470, USA
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- Ronald W. Hart
- National Center for Toxicological Research, Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, AR 72079, USA
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- National Center for Toxicological Research, Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, AR 72079, USA
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- National Center for Toxicological Research, Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, AR 72079, USA
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- National Center for Toxicological Research, Food and Drug Administration, Jefferson, AR 72079, USA
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