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Wu CW, Yau T, Fulgar CC, Mack SM, Revilla AM, Kenyon NJ, Pinkerton KE. Long-Term Sequelae of Smoking and Cessation in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats. Toxicol Pathol 2019; 48:422-436. [PMID: 31870229 DOI: 10.1177/0192623319893312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Smoking is a major risk factor for heart attack, stroke, and lung cancer. Tobacco smoke (TS) causes bronchitis, emphysema, persistent cough, and dyspnea. Smoking cessation minimizes risks of TS-related disease. To determine whether smoking cessation could reverse TS-induced pulmonary changes, 10-week-old male spontaneously hypertensive rats were exposed to TS or filtered air (FA) for 39 weeks and allowed to live out their normal lifespan. Significantly (P ≤ .05) decreased survival was noted by 21 months in TS versus FA rats. In TS rats, persistent peribronchiolar, perivascular, alveolar, and subpleural inflammation were observed with pervasive infiltration of pigmented foamy macrophages and plausible intra-alveolar fibrosis and osseous metaplasia. Alveolar airspace was significantly (P ≤ .05) increased in TS versus FA rats as was the volume of stored epithelial mucosubstances in the left central axial airway. Increased mucin contributes to airflow obstruction and increased lung infection risks. Findings suggest TS-induced changes do not attenuate with smoking cessation but result in irreversible damage similar to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The observed persistent pulmonary changes mirror common TS effects such as chest congestion, sputum production, and shortness of breath long after smoking cessation and represent important targets for treatment of former smokers.
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- Ching-Wen Wu
- Center for Health and the Environment, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.,Forensic Science Graduate Group, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Center for Health and the Environment, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Center for Health and the Environment, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Center for Health and the Environment, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Center for Health and the Environment, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.,Forensic Science Graduate Group, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.,VA Northern California Healthcare System, Mather, CA, USA
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- Center for Health and the Environment, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.,Forensic Science Graduate Group, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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Pinkerton KE, Poindexter ME. Harmful Interruptions: Impact of Smoking Patterns on Tumorigenesis and Emphysema. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2019; 59:133-134. [PMID: 29864376 DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2018-0151ed] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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- Kent E Pinkerton
- 1 Center for Health and the Environment University of California, Davis Davis, California
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- 1 Center for Health and the Environment University of California, Davis Davis, California
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Kameyama N, Chubachi S, Hegab AE, Yasuda H, Kagawa S, Tsutsumi A, Fukunaga K, Shimoda M, Kanai Y, Soejima K, Betsuyaku T. Intermittent Exposure to Cigarette Smoke Increases Lung Tumors and the Severity of Emphysema More than Continuous Exposure. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2019; 59:179-188. [PMID: 29443539 DOI: 10.1165/rcmb.2017-0375oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and cigarette smoking is a main risk factor for both. The presence of emphysema, an irreversible lung disease, further raises the risk of lung cancer in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The mechanisms involved in smoke-induced tumorigenesis and emphysema are not fully understood, attributable to a lack of appropriate animal models. Here, we optimized a model of cigarette smoke (CS)-induced lung cancer and emphysema in A/J mice treated with 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone, a potent carcinogen. We investigated whether variations in CS exposure patterns with the same total amount and duration of exposure affect tumorigenesis and/or development of emphysema. Continuous CS exposure for 3 months significantly suppressed 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone-induced development of adenomas and adenocarcinomas; however, emphysema independently developed during this period. Surprisingly, intermittent CS exposure increased the severity of emphysema and resulted in a higher incidence of adenocarcinomas. Furthermore, intermittent CS exposure elicited a marked increase in M2-polarized macrophages within and near the developed tumors. By employing a CS exposure protocol with repeated cycles of cessation and relapse, we provide evidence that intermittent CS exposure enhances tumorigenesis and emphysema progression more than that of continuous CS exposure.
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- 1 Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, and
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- 1 Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, and
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- 1 Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, and
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- 1 Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, and
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- 2 Department of Pathology, Keio University, School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- 2 Department of Pathology, Keio University, School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- 1 Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, and
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Glauert HP, Elliott RS, Han SG, Athey M, Lee EY, Gairola CG. Effect of cigarette smoke exposure and mutant Kras overexpression on pancreatic cell proliferation. Oncol Lett 2017; 13:1939-1943. [PMID: 28454347 DOI: 10.3892/ol.2017.5606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2015] [Accepted: 09/28/2016] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer-associated mortality. The major risk factor for pancreatic cancer is cigarette smoking. Kras mutations are commonly observed in human pancreatic cancers. The present study examined the hypothesis that exposure to cigarette smoke and overexpression of a mutant Kras gene in the pancreas affects pancreatic cell proliferation in mice. Mice overexpressing the mutant Kras gene (KRasG12D) in the pancreas as well as wild-type mice were exposed to environmental tobacco smoke for 2 weeks. Overexpression of mutant Kras increased cell proliferation in pancreatic ductal, acinar and islet cells. Notably, cigarette smoke exposure decreased cell proliferation in pancreatic ductal and acinar cells, and had no effect in islet cells. Cigarette smoke did not affect pancreatic protein levels of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)α, p53, or cyclin D1, but mutant Kras overexpression slightly decreased TNFα and p53 protein levels. Therefore, pancreatic cell proliferation in mice overexpressing mutant Kras is associated with the later development of pancreatic tumors, but effects of cigarette smoke on pancreatic cell proliferation do not provide a good model for human pancreatic carcinogenesis.
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- Howard P Glauert
- Division of Nutritional Sciences, Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA.,Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Division of Nutritional Sciences, Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Department of Food Science and Biotechnology of Animal Resources, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Nutritional Sciences, Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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- Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
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Tobacco smoke is a known human carcinogen that primarily produces malignant lesions in the respiratory tract, although it also affects multiple other sites. A reliable and practical animal model of tobacco smoke–induced lung cancer would be helpful for in studies of product modification and chemoprevention. Over the years, many attempts to reproduce lung cancer in experimental animals exposed to tobacco smoke have been made, most often with negative or only marginally positive results. In hamsters, malignant lesions have been produced in the larynx, but not in the deeper lung. Female rats and female B6C3F1 mice, when exposed over lifetime to tobacco smoke, develop tumors in the nasal passages and also in the lung. Contrary to what is seen in human lung cancers, most rodent tumors are located peripherally and only about half of them show frank malignant features. Distant metastases are extremely rare. Male and female strain A mice exposed to 5 months to tobacco smoke and then kept for another 4 months in air respond to tobacco smoke with increased lung tumor multiplicities. However, the increase over background levels is comparatively small, making it difficult to detect significant differences when the effects of chemopreventive agents are evaluated. On the other hand, biomarkers of exposure and of effect as well as evaluation of putative carcinogenic mechanisms in rats and mice exposed to tobacco smoke allow detection of early events and their modification by different smoke types or chemopreventive agents. The challenge will be to make such data broadly acceptable and accepted in lieu of having to do more and more long term studies involving larger and larger number of animals.
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- Hanspeter Witschi
- Center for Health and the Environment, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA.
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Leberl M, Kratzer A, Taraseviciene-Stewart L. Tobacco smoke induced COPD/emphysema in the animal model-are we all on the same page? Front Physiol 2013; 4:91. [PMID: 23720629 PMCID: PMC3654205 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2013.00091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2012] [Accepted: 04/10/2013] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is one of the foremost causes of death worldwide. It is primarily caused by tobacco smoke, making it an easily preventable disease, but facilitated by genetic α-1 antitrypsin deficiency. In addition to active smokers, health problems also occur in people involuntarily exposed to second hand smoke (SHS). Currently, the relationship between SHS and COPD is not well established. Knowledge of pathogenic mechanisms is limited, thereby halting the advancement of new treatments for this socially and economically detrimental disease. Here, we attempt to summarize tobacco smoke studies undertaken in animal models, applying both mainstream (direct, nose only) and side stream (indirect, whole body) smoke exposures. This overview of 155 studies compares cellular and molecular mechanisms as well as proteolytic, inflammatory, and vasoreactive responses underlying COPD development. This is a difficult task, as listing of exposure parameters is limited for most experiments. We show that both mainstream and SHS studies largely present similar inflammatory cell populations dominated by macrophages as well as elevated chemokine/cytokine levels, such as TNF-α. Additionally, SHS, like mainstream smoke, has been shown to cause vascular remodeling and neutrophil elastase-mediated proteolytic matrix breakdown with failure to repair. Disease mechanisms and therapeutic interventions appear to coincide in both exposure scenarios. One of the more widely applied interventions, the anti-oxidant therapy, is successful for both mainstream and SHS. The comparison of direct with indirect smoke exposure studies in this review emphasizes that, even though there are many overlapping pathways, it is not conclusive that SHS is using exactly the same mechanisms as direct smoke in COPD pathogenesis, but should be considered a preventable health risk. Some characteristics and therapeutic alternatives uniquely exist in SHS-related COPD.
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- Maike Leberl
- Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine Denver, CO, USA
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Sundar IK, Chung S, Hwang JW, Arunachalam G, Cook S, Yao H, Mazur W, Kinnula VL, Fisher AB, Rahman I. Peroxiredoxin 6 differentially regulates acute and chronic cigarette smoke–mediated lung inflammatory response and injury. Exp Lung Res 2011; 36:451-62. [PMID: 20939758 DOI: 10.3109/01902141003754128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Peroxiredoxin 6 (Prdx6) exerts its protective role through peroxidase activity against H₂O₂ and phospholipid hydroperoxides. We hypothesized that targeted disruption of Prdx6 would lead to enhanced susceptibility to cigarette smoke (CS)-mediated lung inflammation and/or emphysema in mouse lung. Prdx6 null (Prdx6⁻/⁻mice exposed to acute CS showed no significant increase of inflammatory cell influx or any alterations in lung levels of proinflammatory cytokines compared to wild-type (WT) mice. Lung levels of antioxidant enzymes were significantly increased in acute CS-exposed Prdx6⁻/⁻ compared to WT mice. Overexpressing (Prdx6⁻/⁻) mice exposed to acute CS showed significant decrease in lung antioxidant enzymes associated with increased inflammatory response compared to CS-exposed WT mice or air-exposed Prdx6⁻/⁻ mice. However, chronic 6 months of CS exposure resulted in increased lung inflammatory response, mean linear intercept (Lm), and alteration in lung mechanical properties in Prdx6⁻/⁻ when compared to WT mice exposed to CS. These data show that targeted disruption of Prdx6 does not lead to increased lung inflammatory response but is associated with increased antioxidants, suggesting a critical role of lung Prdx6 and several compensatory mechanisms during acute CS-induced adaptive response, whereas this protection is lost in chronic CS exposure leading to emphysema.
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- Isaac K Sundar
- Department of Environmental Medicine, Lung Biology and Disease Program, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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Li J, Tharappel JC, Han SG, Cantor AH, Lee EY, Gairola CG, Glauert HP. Effect of dietary selenium and cigarette smoke on pulmonary cell proliferation in mice. Toxicol Sci 2009; 111:247-53. [PMID: 19597004 PMCID: PMC2742582 DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfp151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2009] [Accepted: 07/08/2009] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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The objective of this study was to determine if dietary selenium could inhibit pulmonary cell proliferation in control and cigarette smoke-exposed female A/J mice. Selenium in the form of sodium selenite was supplemented to purified diets similar to the AIN-93M diet to yield 0.15, 0.5, or 2.0 mg selenium/kg diet. After 3 weeks, mice in each dietary group were divided into two subgroups; one used as control, whereas the other was exposed to cigarette smoke for five consecutive days. Mice from both groups were euthanized 3 days later. Mice were administered bromodeoxyuridine in the drinking water starting 5 days before the initiation of the smoke exposure and continuing until they were euthanized. After euthanasia, the left lung lobe was processed for histology and cell proliferation analysis. Cigarette smoke increased cell proliferation in the terminal bronchioles and large airways, but not in alveoli. High-selenium diets inhibited cell proliferation in the alveoli, terminal bronchioles and large airways areas in both control and smoke-exposed mice. Increasing the dietary selenium level led to increased selenium levels in the blood and lung, and increased glutathione peroxidase (GPx) activity in the lung. Cytochrome P-450 1A1 protein levels in the lung were increased by cigarette smoke but were not affected by dietary selenium. It is concluded that dietary selenium inhibits pulmonary cell proliferation in both control and cigarette smoke-exposed mice, indicating that selenium is inhibiting cell proliferation independently of smoke exposure, and that this inhibition may be related to selenium concentration and GPx activity in the lung.
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- Jun Li
- Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506
- Health Supervision Institute of Chongqing Municipal Health Bureau, Chongqing, China
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- Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506
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- Graduate Center for Toxicology
- Department of Animal and Food Sciences
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506
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- Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506
- Graduate Center for Toxicology
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Witschi H. A/J Mouse As A Model For Lung Tumorigenesis Caused By Tobacco Smoke: Strengths And Weaknesses. Exp Lung Res 2009; 31:3-18. [PMID: 15765916 DOI: 10.1080/01902140490494959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Strain A/J mice have successfully been used to develop an animal model for tobacco smoke carcinogenesis. In 18 individual studies, reported by 4 different laboratories, a significant increase in lung tumor multiplicities following exposure from 50 to 170mg/m3 of total suspended tobacco smoke particulates was found in 15 studies (83 %) and a significant increase in lung tumor incidence in 10 studies (56%). However, tumor multiplicities are comparatively low (from an average of 1.1 to 2.8 tumors per lung). From a toxicological standpoint, this indicates that cigarette smoke is a weak animal carcinogen. Although the assay allowed one to detect substantial chemopreventive activity of a mixture of myo-inositol and dexamethasone, it was less successful in showing efficacy for several other agents.
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- Hanspeter Witschi
- Center for Health and Environment, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
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Yang J, Wang L, Chen Z, Shen ZQ, Jin M, Wang XW, Zheng Y, Qiu ZG, Wang JF, Li JW. Antioxidant intervention of smoking-induced lung tumor in mice by vitamin E and quercetin. BMC Cancer 2008; 8:383. [PMID: 19099597 PMCID: PMC2625366 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-8-383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2008] [Accepted: 12/20/2008] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Background Epidemiological and in vitro studies suggest that antioxidants such as quercetin and vitamin E (VE) can prevent lung tumor caused by smoking; however, there is limited evidence from animal studies. Methods In the present study, Swiss mouse was used to examine the potential of quercetin and VE for prevention lung tumor induced by smoking. Results Our results suggest that the incidence of lung tumor and tumor multiplicity were 43.5% and 1.00 ± 0.29 in smoking group; Quercetin has limited effects on lung tumor prevention in this in vivo model, as measured by assays for free radical scavenging, reduction of smoke-induced DNA damage and inhibition of apoptosis. On the other hand, vitamin E drastically decreased the incidence of lung tumor and tumor multiplicity which were 17.0% and 0.32 ± 0.16, respectively (p < 0.05); and demonstrated prominent antioxidant effects, reduction of DNA damage and decreased cell apoptosis (p < 0.05). Combined treatment with quercetin and VE in this animal model did not demonstrate any effect greater than that due to vitamin E alone. In addition, gender differences in the occurrence of smoke induced-lung tumor and antioxidant intervention were also observed. Conclusion We conclude that VE might prevent lung tumor induced by smoking in Swiss mice.
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- Jie Yang
- Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, PR China.
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Stinn W, Teredesai A, Kuhl P, Knörr-Wittmann C, Kindt R, Coggins C, Haussmann HJ. Mechanisms Involved in A/J Mouse Lung Tumorigenesis Induced by Inhalation of an Environmental Tobacco Smoke Surrogate. Inhal Toxicol 2008; 17:263-76. [PMID: 15814487 DOI: 10.1080/08958370590922544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Lung tumors have been reproducibly induced in A/J mice exposed to a surrogate for experimental environmental tobacco smoke (ETSS) in a 5-mo inhalation period followed by 4 mo without further exposure. In order to increase our mechanistic understanding of this model, male mice were whole-body exposed for 6 h/d, 5 d/wk to ETSS with a particulate matter concentration of 100 mg/m(3). Food restriction regimens were included to model or exceed the ETSS-related impairment of body weight development. Half of the mice were pretreated with a single ip injection of urethane to study the effect of the above treatments on lung tumor development induced by this substance. At 5 mo, the tumor response was statistically the same for all groups of non-pretreated mice; however, the expected urethane-induced lung tumorigenesis was significantly inhibited by approximately 25% by ETSS and food restriction. This inhibition was accompanied by a threefold increase in blood corticosterone as a common stress marker for both ETSS and food restriction. At 9 mo, in mice not pretreated, the lung tumor incidence and multiplicity were significantly increased by twofold in the ETSS group; in the urethane-treated groups, the same high tumor multiplicity was reached regardless of previous treatment. The predominant tumor type in all groups was bronchiolo-alveolar adenoma. There was no induction of a specific K-ras mutation pattern by ETSS exposure. These data suggest a stress-induced inhibition of lung tumorigenesis in this model, explaining the need for the posttreatment period.
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- W Stinn
- Philip Morris Research Laboratories GmbH, Cologne, Germany.
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Pinkerton KE, Peake JL, Espiritu I, Goldsmith M, Witschi H. Quantitative Histology and Cytochrome P-450 Immunocytochemistry of the Lung Parenchyma Following 6 Months of Exposure of Strain A/J Mice to Cigarette Sidestream Smoke. Inhal Toxicol 2008. [DOI: 10.3109/08958379609034271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Bella DL, Schock BC, Lim Y, Leonard SW, Berry C, Cross CE, Traber MG. Regulation of the alpha-tocopherol transfer protein in mice: lack of response to dietary vitamin E or oxidative stress. Lipids 2007; 41:105-12. [PMID: 17707975 DOI: 10.1007/s11745-006-5077-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The alpha-tocopherol transfer protein (TTP) plays an important role in the regulation of plasma alpha-tocopherol concentrations. We hypothesized that hepatic TTP levels would be modulated by dietary vitamin E supplementation and/or by oxidative stress. Mice were fed either a High E (1150 mg RRR-alpha-tocopheryl acetate/kg diet) or a Low E (11.5 mg/kg diet) diet for 2 wk. High E increased plasma and liver alpha-tocopherol concentrations approximately 8- and 40-fold, respectively, compared with Low E-fed mice, whereas hepatic TTP increased approximately 20%. Hepatic TTP concentrations were unaffected by fasting (24 h) in mice fed either diet. To induce oxidative stress, chow-fed mice were exposed for 3 d to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) for 6 h/d (total suspended particulate, 57.4 +/- 1.8 mg/m3). ETS exposure, while resulting in pulmonary and systemic oxidative stress, had no effect on hepatic alpha-tocopherol concentrations or hepatic TTP. Overall, changes in hepatic TTP concentrations were minimal in response to dietary vitamin E levels or ETS-related oxidative stress. Thus, hepatic TTP concentrations may be at sufficient levels such that they are unaffected by either modulations of dietary vitamin E or by the conditions of environmentally related oxidative stress used in the present studies.
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- Deborah L Bella
- Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-6512, USA
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Fortino V, Maioli E, Torricelli C, Davis P, Valacchi G. Cutaneous MMPs are differently modulated by environmental stressors in old and young mice. Toxicol Lett 2007; 173:73-9. [PMID: 17681721 DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2007.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2007] [Revised: 06/11/2007] [Accepted: 06/11/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Skin is frequently exposed to pro-oxidative insults such as UV light, ozone (O(3)) and cigarette smoke (CS), which are able to deplete antioxidants and induce oxidation products affecting skin pathophysiology. Skin turnover and regeneration are largely dependent on extracellular matrix metabolism, which is under the control of matrix metalloproteinases, MMPs. The present study evaluated cutaneous MMPs activity upon environmental pollutants exposure and analyzed the response of old and young animals. For this purpose, SKH-1 hairless mice (8 weeks and 18 months old) were exposed for 6h/day to 0.25ppm of O(3) or to UV radiation (0.3 MED) or to CS for 4 days. Gelatin zymography revealed an increase of MMP-2 in both young and old animals, after exposure to pollutants, while MMP-9, undetectable in unexposed subjects, was strongly induced only in old mice. Casein zymography and Western blot analysis showed an increase of MMP-12 in the aged group after environmental stressors exposure. TIMP-1 and -2 expression levels did not change. The current study demonstrates the ability of certain environmental pollutants to affect the ECM turnover through modulation of specific MMPs, and confirms the higher susceptibility of old subjects to exogenous pro-oxidant insults.
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- Vittoria Fortino
- Department of Physiology, University of Siena, Via Aldo Moro, 7 - Siena, Siena 53100, Italy
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Stinn W, Teredesai A, Anskeit E, Rustemeier K, Schepers G, Schnell P, Haussmann HJ, Carchman RA, Coggins CRE, Reininghaus W. Chronic nose-only inhalation study in rats, comparing room-aged sidestream cigarette smoke and diesel engine exhaust. Inhal Toxicol 2006; 17:549-76. [PMID: 16033752 DOI: 10.1080/08958370591000564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Nose-only exposure of male and female Wistar rats to a surrogate for environmental tobacco smoke, termed room-aged sidestream smoke (RASS), to diesel engine exhaust (DEE), or to filtered, fresh air (sham) was performed 6 hours/day, 7 days/week for 2 years, followed by a 6-month post-exposure period. The particulate concentrations were 3 and 10 mg/m3. Markers of inflammation in bronchoalveolar lavage showed that DEE (but not RASS) produced a dose-related and persistent inflammatory response. Lung weights were increased markedly in the DEE (but not RASS) groups and did not decrease during the 6-month post-exposure period. Bulky lung DNA adducts increased in the RASS groups, but not in the DEE groups. Cell proliferation in the lungs was unaffected by either experimental treatment. Histopathological responses in the RASS groups were minimal and almost completely reversible; lung tumors were similar in number to those seen in the sham-exposed groups. Rats exposed to DEE showed a panoply of dose-related histopathological responses: largely irreversible and in some cases progressive. Malignant and multiple tumors were seen only in the DEE groups; after 30 months, the tumor incidence (predominantly bronchiolo-alveolar adenomas) was 2% in the sham-exposed groups, 5%in the high RASS groups, and 46% in the high DEE groups (sexes combined). Our results suggest that in rats exposed to DEE, but not to RASS, the following series of events occurs: particle deposition in lungs --> lung "overload" --> pulmonary inflammation --> tumorigenesis, without a significant modifying role of cell proliferation or DNA adduct formation.
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- Walter Stinn
- Philip Morris Research Laboratories GmbH, Cologne, Germany
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A simple animal model of tobacco smoke carcinogenesis works as follows: Strain A/J mice are exposed for 5 months to tobacco smoke. They are then given a 4-month recovery period in air before being killed. Lung surface tumors are counted and lung tumor multiplicity (average number of tumors per lung, including non-tumor bearing animals) is calculated. Results obtained in four different laboratories during the past 8 years have consistently shown significant increases in lung tumor multiplicities in tobacco smoke exposed animals. While inhaling to tobacco smoke, strain A mice (but not some other strains) fail to gain weight and immediately after smoke exposure only have about 75% of control weight; however, when removed into air, they regain weight rapidly up to control levels. The counting of surface tumors only may occasionally underestimate total number of lung tumors and thus yield false negatives. At the end of the experiment, the mice are 1-year old and about 80% of the tumors are adenomas, the remainder adenomas with carcinomatous foci or adenocarcinomas. Tobacco smoke does not increase the percentage of adenocarcinomas. Studies with filtered tobacco smoke have suggested that benzo(a)pyrene or tobacco smoke-specific nitrosamines cannot account for lung carcinogenesis in mice; the most likely single agent to cause lung tumors is 1,3-butadiene. A major disadvantage of the assay is its low statistical power. While it is easy to detect a 70-100% decrease in lung tumor multiplicity caused by a chemopreventive agent using group sizes of 20-30 animals, the detection of smaller reductions (20-50%) would require group sizes in the hundreds. From all available evidence it must be concluded that the complex mixture of tobacco smoke, a known human carcinogen, is a rather weak rodent carcinogen.
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- Hanspeter Witschi
- Center for Health and the Environment, University of California, Davis, USA.
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Wang Y, Zhang Z, Lubet R, You M. Tobacco smoke-induced lung tumorigenesis in mutant A/J mice with alterations in K-ras, p53, or Ink4a/Arf. Oncogene 2005; 24:3042-9. [PMID: 15846305 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1208390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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A/J mice with genetic alterations in K-ras, p53, or Ink4a/Arf were employed to investigate whether mice carrying these germline mutations would be susceptible to tobacco smoke-induced lung tumorigenesis. Transgenic mice of both genders and their wild-type littermates were exposed to environmental cigarette smoke for 6 months, followed by recovery in air for 5 months. A significant increase of lung tumor multiplicity was observed in K-ras, p53, or Ink4a/Arf mutant mice when compared with wild-type mice. Furthermore, an additive effect was observed between the mice with a mutant p53 transgene and an Ink4A/Arf deletion during tobacco smoke-induced lung tumorigenesis. Sequence analysis of the K-ras gene indicated that the mutations had occurred at either codon 12/13 or 61 in both spontaneously occurring (air control) and tobacco smoke-induced lung tumors. K-ras mutations were found in 62% of the tumors from air-control animals and 83% in those exposed to tobacco smoke. The mutation spectrum found in tumors from mice exposed to tobacco smoke is somewhat similar to that in tumors from air-control mice. In addition, we identified three novel mutations at codon 12: GGT (Gly) --> TTT (Phe), ATT (Ile), and CTT (Leu). These findings provide evidence that K-ras, p53, and Ink4a/Arf mutations play a role in tobacco smoke-related lung carcinogenesis. The similarity of the mutation spectra in the K-ras oncogene observed in tobacco smoke-induced tumors, as compared to spontaneous tumors, suggests that tobacco smoke enhances lung tumorigenesis primarily through promoting spontaneously occurring K-ras mutations.
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- Yian Wang
- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Siteman Cancer Center, The Washington University in St Louis, 660 S Euclid Avenue, St Louis, MO, USA
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Yao R, Wang Y, D'Agostini F, Izzotti A, Lubet RA, You M, De Flora S. K-ras mutations in lung tumors from p53 mutant mice exposed to cigarette smoke. Exp Lung Res 2005; 31:271-81. [PMID: 15824025 DOI: 10.1080/0190214059090386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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In this study, we used p53 transgenic mice to investigate whether mice carrying this germline mutation would be susceptible to tobacco smoke-induced lung tumorigenesis. We subjected male transgenic mice and their wild-type littermates to whole-body exposure to environmental cigarette smoke (ECS) for up to 9.5 months. K-ras gene expression was significantly increased, 28 days after ECS exposure, in the apparently healthy lung of p53 mutant mice. An increase of lung tumor incidence and multiplicity was observed in p53 transgenic mice after exposure to ECS for either 5 months, followed by recovery in air for 4.5 months, or 9.5 continuative months of exposure. Conversely, no tumorigenic effect was observed in their wild-type littermates. Sequence analysis of the K-ras gene indicated that mutations had occurred at codon 12, 13 or codon 61 in tumors both from the air control group and tobacco smoke treatment groups. K-ras mutations were found in 100 %, 100 % and 77 % of tumors from animals exposed to air, ECS for 5 months, followed by recovery in air for 4.5 months, and ECS for 9.5 continuative months, respectively. The K-ras mutations were seemingly not related to the p53 genotype of the animals or to ECS exposure. The mutation spectrum was similar in tumors from the different groups. An apparently higher incidence of K-ras codon 12 mutations in the 9.5 months ECS group was not statistically significant. These findings provide evidence that mice carrying a mutant p53 transgene appear to be more sensitive to ECS-induced lung tumors than the corresponding wild-type littermates. K-ras mutations seem to be independent of the p53 status but the early overexpression of this oncogene is related to the p53 status in ECS-exposed mice. These results suggest that tobacco smoke enhances lung tumorigenesis primarily through promoting spontaneously occurring K-ras mutations.
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- Ruisheng Yao
- Department of Surgery and The Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Van Winkle LS, Brown CD, Shimizu JA, Gunderson AD, Evans MJ, Plopper CG. Impaired recovery from naphthalene-induced bronchiolar epithelial injury in mice exposed to aged and diluted sidestream cigarette smoke. Toxicol Lett 2004; 154:1-9. [PMID: 15475173 DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2004.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2004] [Revised: 06/22/2004] [Accepted: 06/22/2004] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The effect of sidestream tobacco smoke combined with other pollutants is largely unknown. Previously, we found that distal airway epithelial repair was inhibited in mice exposed to sidestream tobacco smoke (TS) for 5 days followed by single exposure to naphthalene (NA), a common polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon found in cigarette smoke, diesel exhaust, and pesticide formulations. The main injury target of NA is the nonciliated (Clara) bronchiolar cell. NA injury normally resolves in two weeks. Repair in mice exposed to TS and NA was unresolved in the distal bronchioles 14 days post-NA injury. We hypothesized that repair inhibition persisted as a first step towards long-term airway remodeling and expanded the previous study by evaluating repair 21 days after acute NA injury. Repair was evaluated using high resolution histopathology, TEM, and quantitative morphometry. In animals exposed to TS and NA, repair was still impaired; re-differentiation of Clara cells at the bronchoalveolar duct junction was incomplete, indicating repair was continuing. Compared to 14 days post-NA-injury, repair at 21 days post-NA treatment was more extensive. Animals exposed only to TS had epithelium similar to controls. While TS exposure impairs bronchiolar epithelial repair after NA exposure, this effect appears to be slowly resolving over time.
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- Laura S Van Winkle
- Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, Center for Comparative Respiratory Biology and Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, One Shields Avenue, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616-8732, USA.
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Tricker AR, Brown BG, Doolittle DJ, Richter E. Metabolism of 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK) in A/J mouse lung and effect of cigarette smoke exposure on in vivo metabolism to biological reactive intermediates. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2002; 500:451-4. [PMID: 11764979 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0667-6_67] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2023]
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Wolz L, Krause G, Scherer G, Aufderheide M, Mohr U. In vitro genotoxicity assay of sidestream smoke using a human bronchial epithelial cell line. Food Chem Toxicol 2002; 40:845-50. [PMID: 11983279 DOI: 10.1016/s0278-6915(02)00034-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Genotoxic effects of air contaminants, such as gaseous or particulate compounds, have been difficult to investigate due to inefficient methods for exposing cell cultures directly to these substances. New cultivation and exposure techniques enable treatment of epithelial cells with sample atmospheres with subsequent in vitro assays, as demonstrated by a new system called CULTEX (CULTEX: patent No. DE 19801763; PCT/EP99/00295), which uses a transwell membrane technique for direct exposure of complex mixtures, for example sidestream cigarette smoke, at the air/liquid interface. The sensitivity and susceptibility of human bronchial epithelial cells to this complex mixture have already been shown for cytotoxic endpoints. In this study, genotoxic effects of sidestream cigarette smoke at different concentrations were assessed using the alkaline comet assay. HFBE 21 cells were exposed for 1 h to clean air, nitrogen dioxide or sidestream smoke. Exposure of the cells to sidestream cigarette smoke induced DNA strand breaks in a dose-dependent manner. The combination of gas phase exposure and the comet assay provides a realistic and efficient model for sensitive detection of DNA strand breaks induced by airborne and inhalable compounds.
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- L Wolz
- Analytisch-Biologisches Forschungslabor München, Goethestr. 2, 80336, Germany
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Bogen KT, Witschi H. Lung tumors in A/J mice exposed to environmental tobacco smoke: estimated potency and implied human risk. Carcinogenesis 2002; 23:511-9. [PMID: 11895867 DOI: 10.1093/carcin/23.3.511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Directly inhaled tobacco smoke is a recognized human lung carcinogen, and epidemiological studies suggest relative risks of about 1.2-1.4 for nonsmoking spouses of smokers typically exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). While many individual ETS components have been shown experimentally to induce lung tumors, ETS itself was only recently shown to induce lung tumors in a series of studies in which strain A/J mice were exposed to well-defined ETS atmospheres. Data from these studies indicate that ETS exposure clearly can increase combined malignant and benign lung tumors in multiple experiments involving male and female A/J mice, and thus provide convincing evidence that ETS is a positive mouse carcinogen. Tumorigenic potencies estimated from these A/J mouse bioassay data predict a corresponding range of increased human risk (0.2-0.5%) that overlaps that implied by case-control studies showing increased lung cancer risks in lifelong nonsmokers married to smokers. In A/J mice exposed to a significantly tumorigenic ETS concentration, lung tumors were found to be significantly smaller than those in corresponding control mice, and mice so exposed for 9 months had significantly fewer tumors/animal than mice exposed for 5 months followed by 4 months in filtered ETS-free air. These findings support hypotheses that ETS does not promote growth of spontaneous neoplastic foci in A/J mice, and that ETS-induced lung-tumor risk in A/J mice occurs predominantly by genotoxic effects that can be suppressed by reduced cell proliferation associated with chronic, high-level ETS exposure. The results obtained add to evidence that A/J mouse lung tumors induced by ETS provide a relevant biological model of ETS-induced human lung tumors.
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- Kenneth T Bogen
- Health and Ecology Assessment Division L-396, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, 7000 E. Ave., Livermore, CA 94550, USA.
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Rubin H. Synergistic mechanisms in carcinogenesis by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and by tobacco smoke: a bio-historical perspective with updates. Carcinogenesis 2001; 22:1903-30. [PMID: 11751421 DOI: 10.1093/carcin/22.12.1903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 185] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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B[a]P (benzo[a]pyrene) has been used as a prototype carcinogenic PAH since its isolation from coal tar in the 1930's. One of its diol epoxides, BPDE-2, is considered its ultimate carcinogen on the basis of its binding to DNA, mutagenicity and extreme pulmonary carcinogenicity in newborn mice. However, BPDE-1 has a similar binding to DNA and mutagenicity but it is not carcinogenic. In addition, BPDE-2 is a weak carcinogen relative to B[a]P when repeatedly applied to mouse skin, the conventional assay site. Its carcinogenicity is increased when applied once as an initiator followed repeatedly by a promoter. This indicates a major role for promotion in carcinogenesis by PAHs. Promotion itself is a 2-stage process, the second of which is selective propagation of the initiated cells. Persistent hyperplasia underlies selection by promoters. The non-carcinogenicity of BPDE-1 has yet to be resolved. PAHs have long been considered the main carcinogens of cigarette smoke but their concentration in the condensate is far too low to account by themselves for the production of skin tumors. The phenolic fraction does however have strong promotional activity when repeatedly applied to initiated mouse skin. Several constituents of cigarette smoke are co-carcinogenic when applied simultaneously with repeated applications of PAHs. Catechol is co-carcinogenic at concentrations found in the condensate. Since cigarette smoking involves protracted exposure to all the smoke constituents, co-carcinogenesis simulates its effects. Both procedures, however, indicate a major role for selection in carcinogenesis by cigarette smoke. That selection may operate on endogenous mutations as well as those induced by PAHs. There are indications that the nicotine-derived NNK which is a specific pulmonary carcinogen in animals contributes to smoking-induced lung cancer in man. Lung adenoma development by inhalation has been induced in mice by the gas phase of cigarette smoke. The role of selection has not been evaluated in either of these cases.
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- H Rubin
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Life Sciences Addition, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3200, USA.
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Brown BG, Richter E, Tricker AR, Ayres PH, Doolittle DJ. The effect of a 2-h exposure to cigarette smoke on the metabolic activation of the tobacco-specific nitrosamine 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone in A/J mice. Chem Biol Interact 2001; 138:125-35. [PMID: 11672696 DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2797(01)00265-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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4-(Methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK), a tobacco-specific nitrosamine, induces lung adenomas in A/J mice following a single intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection. However, inhalation of mainstream cigarette smoke does not induce or promote NNK-induced lung tumors in this mouse strain purported to be sensitive to chemically-induced lung tumorigenesis. The critical events for NNK-induced lung tumorigenesis in A/J mice is thought to involve O(6)-methylguanine (O(6)MeG) adduct formation, GC-->AT transitional mispairing, and activation of the K-ras proto-oncogene. The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that a smoke-induced shift in NNK metabolism led to the observed decrease in O(6)MeG adducts in the lung and liver of A/J mice co-administered NNK with a concomitant 2-h exposure to cigarette smoke as observed in previous studies. Following 2 h nose-only exposure to mainstream cigarette smoke (600 mg total suspended particulates/m(3) of air), mice (n=12) were administered 7.5 micromol NNK (10 microCi [5-3H]NNK) by i.p. injection. A control group of 12 mice was sham-exposed to HEPA-filtered air for 2 h prior to i.p. administration of 7.5 micromol NNK (10 microCi [5-3H]NNK). Exposure to mainstream cigarette smoke had no effect on total excretion of NNK metabolites in 24 h urine; however, the metabolite pattern was significantly changed. Mice exposed to mainstream cigarette smoke excreted 25% more 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol (NNAL) than control mice, a statistically significant increase (P<0.0001). Cigarette smoke exposure significantly reduced alpha-hydroxylation of NNK to potential methylating species; this is based on the 15% reduction in excretion of the 4-(3-pyridyl)-4-hydroxybutanoic acid and 42% reduction in excretion of 4-(3-pyridyl)-4-oxobutanoic acid versus control. Detoxication of NNK and NNAL by pyridine-N-oxidation, and glucuronidation of NNAL were not significantly different in the two groups of mice. The observed reduction in alpha-hydroxylation of NNK to potential methylating species in mainstream cigarette smoke-exposed A/J mice provides further mechanistic support for earlier studies demonstrating that concurrent inhalation of mainstream cigarette smoke results in a significant reduction of NNK-induced O(6)MeG adduct formation in lung and liver of A/J mice compared to mice treated only with NNK.
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- B G Brown
- R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, PO Box 1236, Winston-Salem, NC 27102, USA.
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Aufderheide M, Ritter D, Knebel JW, Scherer G. A method for in vitro analysis of the biological activity of complex mixtures such as sidestream cigarette smoke. EXPERIMENTAL AND TOXICOLOGIC PATHOLOGY : OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE GESELLSCHAFT FUR TOXIKOLOGISCHE PATHOLOGIE 2001; 53:141-52. [PMID: 11484832 DOI: 10.1078/0940-2993-00187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Studies of the cytotoxicity of air contaminants such as gaseous or particulate compounds and complex mixtures have traditionally used in animal experiments because of the difficulties in exposing cell cultures directly to these substances. New cultivation and exposure techniques enhance the efficiency of in vitro methods, as demonstrated by a new system called CULTEX* which uses a transwell membrane technique for direct exposure of complex mixtures like sidestream cigarette smoke at the air/liquid interface. The factors influencing the susceptibility of human bronchial epithelial cells (e.g. gas flow rate or duration of exposure) were studied and the cells were finally exposed for one hour to clean air or different concentrations of sidestream smoke. The biological parameters estimated were number of cells, metabolic activity and glutathione concentration. After exposure of the cells to sidestream cigarette smoke, dose-dependent effects were measured. Thus, the introduction of these cultivation and exposure techniques offers new testing strategies for the toxicological evaluation of a broad range of airborne and inhalable compounds.
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- M Aufderheide
- Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Aerosol Research Drug Research and Clinical Inhalation, Hannover, Germany.
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Slotkin TA, Pinkerton KE, Garofolo MC, Auman JT, McCook EC, Seidler FJ. Perinatal exposure to environmental tobacco smoke induces adenylyl cyclase and alters receptor-mediated cell signaling in brain and heart of neonatal rats. Brain Res 2001; 898:73-81. [PMID: 11292450 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(01)02145-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Perinatal exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) has adverse effects on neurobehavioral development. In the current study, rats were exposed to ETS during gestation, during the early neonatal period, or both. Brains and hearts were examined for alterations in adenylyl cyclase (AC) activity and for changes in beta-adrenergic and m2-muscarinic cholinergic receptors and their linkage to AC. ETS exposure elicited induction of total AC activity as monitored with the direct enzymatic stimulant, forskolin. In the brain, the specific coupling of beta-adrenergic receptors to AC was inhibited in the ETS groups, despite a normal complement of beta-receptor binding sites. In the heart, ETS evoked a decrease in m2-receptor expression. In both tissues, the effects of postnatal ETS, mimicking passive smoking, were equivalent to (AC) or greater than (m2-receptors) those seen with prenatal ETS mimicking active smoking; the effects of combined prenatal and postnatal exposure were equivalent to those seen with postnatal exposure alone. These data indicate that ETS exposure evokes changes in cell signaling that recapitulate those caused by developmental nicotine treatment. Since alterations in AC signaling are known to affect cardiorespiratory function, the present results provide a mechanistic link reinforcing the participation of ETS exposure, including postnatal ETS, in disturbances culminating in events like Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
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- T A Slotkin
- Department of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3813, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
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March TH, Kolar LM, Barr EB, Finch GL, Ménache MG, Nikula KJ. Enhanced pulmonary epithelial replication and axial airway mucosubstance changes in F344 rats exposed short-term to mainstream cigarette smoke. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 1999; 161:171-9. [PMID: 10581211 DOI: 10.1006/taap.1999.8798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Cigarette smoking is associated with respiratory diseases that may be caused by injury to specific pulmonary cells. The injury may manifest itself as site-specific enhanced cellular replication. In this study, rats were exposed either to mainstream cigarette smoke (CS; 250 mg total particulate matter/m(3)) or to filtered air (FA) for 6 h/day, 5 days/week, for 2 weeks. In one group, cells in S-phase were labeled over 7 days by bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) released from implanted osmotic pumps (pump labeled), while another group received BrdU by injection 2 h prior to necropsy (pulse labeled). Morphometry showed that the type II epithelial BrdU labeling index (LI) was significantly elevated in the CS-exposed animals of both labeling groups. The axial airway and terminal bronchiolar LIs were enhanced by CS only in the pump-labeled group. In a third group (pulse labeled), 2 weeks of recovery following exposure to CS allowed a normalization in the type II LI. In the pump-labeled rats, the CS-induced elevation of the type II LI was greater than the LI elevation in conducting airways, suggesting that the parenchyma may have been injured more than the conducting airways. The terminal bronchiolar LI in the pump-labeled group, regardless of exposure, was significantly greater than the axial airway LI. Pump labeling, in contrast to pulse labeling, could therefore discern differences among replication rates of conducting airway epithelium in different regions of the lung. Mucosubstance (MS) within the axial airway epithelium was quantified by morphometry. The CS exposure did not increase the total number of MS-containing cells or the total number of axial airway epithelial cells, but there was a phenotype change in the MS cells. Neutral MS cells (periodic acid-Schiff-positive) were significantly decreased, while acid MS cells (alcian blue-positive) were slightly increased by CS exposure. Either cell replication and differentiation or differentiation alone may have changed the phenotype in the MS cell population.
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- T H March
- Inhalation Toxicology Laboratory, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87185-5890, USA
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Schlage W, Bülles H, Kurkowsky B. Use of the HET–CAM Test for the Determination of the Irritant Potential of Cigarette Sidestream Smoke. Toxicol In Vitro 1999; 13:829-35. [DOI: 10.1016/s0887-2333(99)00059-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Male and female strain A/J mice were exposed to environmental tobacco smoke that was generated by burning Kentucky 1R4F reference cigarettes. Exposures lasted 6 hours per day, 5 days per week for a total of 5 months, followed by a 4-month recovery period in air. Chamber concentrations of total suspended particulate matter (TSP) ranged from 50 to 90 mg/m3. Under these conditions, the average lung tumor multiplicity was 1.2 to 1.4 tumors per lung, significantly higher (p < 0.05) than in concomitant controls. ETS exposure led to a comparatively modest increase in cell proliferation in the alveolar zone during the first 2 weeks and in the terminal airways during the first 6 weeks. In the nasal passages cell proliferation was increased throughout, but reverted down to normal when the animals were placed in air. Smoke exposure increased immunostaining for cytochrome P4501A1 in airways and parenchyma. Exposure to the smoke gas phase only produced a similar increase in lung tumor multiplicity as did exposure to full smoke, but failed to induce P4501A1. This suggested that gas-phase constituents play an important role in tobacco smoke carcinogenesis. The strain A/J lung tumor model is thus suitable to study questions associated with tobacco smoke toxicity and carcinogenicity.
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- H Witschi
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, USA.
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Schlage WK, Bülles H, Friedrichs D, Kuhn M, Teredesai A, Terpstra PM. Cytokeratin expression patterns in the rat respiratory tract as markers of epithelial differentiation in inhalation toxicology. II. Changes in cytokeratin expression patterns following 8-day exposure to room-aged cigarette sidestream smoke. Toxicol Pathol 1998; 26:344-60. [PMID: 9608640 DOI: 10.1177/019262339802600308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The expression of specific cytokeratin (CK) polypeptide patterns is a sensitive marker of the cytoskeletal differentiation of epithelial cells. We developed an immunohistochemical method to assess CK expression patterns in the rat respiratory tract using serial paraffin-embedded sections from the nasal cavity, trachea, and lung. In the present study, this method was used to detect exposure-related differences in CK expression patterns in adult Wistar rats following inhalation of room-aged sidestream smoke (11 mg total particulate matter/m3 air, 8 days, 12 hr/day, whole body). In the anterior nasal cavity level 1 (NL1), changes in CK expression patterns were observed in the respiratory epithelium of the lateral wall and the maxilloturbinate (CK14, CK15, and CK18) and in the squamous epithelium of the ventral meatus (CK13). At nasal cavity level 2 (NL2), immediately behind NL1, changes were observed in the olfactory epithelium (CK13, CK14, and CK18) and in the respiratory epithelium of the septum (CK7 and CK19), the lateral wall (CK7 and CK13), and the lateral aspect of the maxilloturbinate (CK14). Changes were also observed in the submucosal glands, nasolacrimal duct, and vomeronasal organ. In the trachea only CK7 expression changed, and in the lung expression of CK7 (bronchioli) and CK8 (bronchus) changed; the expression of other CK polypeptides did not change. The observed changes in CK expression at NL1 correlated with the histomorphological changes, whereas CK expression changes were also seen in the olfactory and respiratory epithelia at NL2 and in the trachea and lung, where no histomorphological changes were seen. These findings indicate that changes in CK expression in respiratory tract epithelial cells are a sensitive marker for cellular stress response.
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- W K Schlage
- INBIFO Institut für biologische Forschung GmbH, Köln, Germany.
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It has by now become obvious that environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) may pose a health risk to nonsmokers. Epidemiological data suggest that exposure to ETS may increase the risk of developing lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, intrauterine growth retardation, predisposition to chronic lung disease, and sudden infant death syndrome. The human populations most at risk from ETS exposure appear to be neonates, young children, and possibly the fetus while in utero. Experimental studies with cigarette sidestream smoke (SS) have successfully duplicated several of these disease conditions in laboratory animals, particularly the effects of SS on fetal growth, lung maturation, and altered airway reactivity. The availability of animal models may open the way to fruitful experimental studies on mechanisms that help us to better understand disease.
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- H Witschi
- Institute of Toxicology and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, 95616, USA
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Finch GL, Nikula KJ, Belinsky SA, Barr EB, Stoner GD, Lechner JF. Failure of cigarette smoke to induce or promote lung cancer in the A/J mouse. Cancer Lett 1996; 99:161-7. [PMID: 8616820 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3835(95)04059-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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A six-month bioassay in A/J mice was conducted to test the hypothesis that chronically inhaled mainstream cigarette smoke would either induce lung cancer or promote lung carcinogenicity induced by the tobacco-specific nitrosamine, 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK). Groups of 20 female A/J mice were exposed to filtered air (FA) or cigarette smoke (CS), injected with NNK, or exposed to both CS and NNK. At 7 weeks of age, mice were injected once with NNK; 3 days later, they were exposed to CS for 6 h/day, 5 days/week, for 26 weeks at a mean 248 mg total particulate matter/m3 concentration. Animals were sacrificed 5 weeks after exposures ended for gross and histological evaluation of lung lesions. No significant differences in survival between exposure groups was observed. A biologically significant level of CS exposure was achieved as indicated by CS-induced body weight reductions, lung weight increases, and carboxyhemoglobin levels in blood of about 17%. Crude tumor incidences, as determined from gross observation of lung nodules, were similar between the CS-exposed and FA groups, and the NNK and CS + NNK groups. Incidences in either of these latter groups were greater than either the CS or FA groups. Furthermore, tumor multiplicity in tumor-bearing animals was not significantly different among any of the three groups (FA, NNK, CS + NNK) in which tumors were observed. Thus, CS exposure neither induced lung tumors nor promoted NNK-induced tumors. Because the CS exposure concentration was probably near the maximally tolerable level, longer exposures should be evaluated to potentially establish a CS-induced model of lung carcinogenesis in the A/J mouse.
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- G L Finch
- Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute, Lovelace Biomedical and Environmental Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM 87185-5890, USA.
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