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Burioli EAV, Hammel M, Bierne N, Thomas F, Houssin M, Destoumieux-Garzón D, Charrière GM. Traits of a mussel transmissible cancer are reminiscent of a parasitic life style. Sci Rep 2021; 11:24110. [PMID: 34916573 PMCID: PMC8677744 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-03598-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2021] [Accepted: 12/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Some cancers have evolved the ability to spread from host to host by transmission of cancerous cells. These rare biological entities can be considered parasites with a host-related genome. Still, we know little about their specific adaptation to a parasitic lifestyle. MtrBTN2 is one of the few lineages of transmissible cancers known in the animal kingdom. Reported worldwide, MtrBTN2 infects marine mussels. We isolated MtrBTN2 cells circulating in the hemolymph of cancerous mussels and investigated their phenotypic traits. We found that MtrBTN2 cells had remarkable survival capacities in seawater, much higher than normal hemocytes. With almost 100% cell survival over three days, they increase significantly their chances to infect neighboring hosts. MtrBTN2 also triggered an aggressive cancerous process: proliferation in mussels was ~ 17 times higher than normal hemocytes (mean doubling time of ~ 3 days), thereby favoring a rapid increase of intra-host population size. MtrBTN2 appears to induce host castration, thereby favoring resources re-allocation to the parasites and increasing the host carrying capacity. Altogether, our results highlight a series of traits of MtrBTN2 consistent with a marine parasitic lifestyle that may have contributed to the success of its persistence and dissemination in different mussel populations across the globe.
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- E A V Burioli
- IHPE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, Univ Perpignan Via Domitia, Montpellier, France.
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- IHPE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, Univ Perpignan Via Domitia, Montpellier, France
- ISEM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- ISEM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- CREEC/CANECEV (CREES), MIVEGEC, Unité Mixte de Recherches, IRD 224-CNRS 5290-Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- LABÉO, Caen, France
- Normandie Université, Université de Caen Normandie, FRE BOREA, CNRS-2030, IRD-207, MNHN, UPMC, UCN, Caen, France
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- IHPE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, Univ Perpignan Via Domitia, Montpellier, France
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- IHPE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, Univ Perpignan Via Domitia, Montpellier, France
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Hamede R, Owen R, Siddle H, Peck S, Jones M, Dujon AM, Giraudeau M, Roche B, Ujvari B, Thomas F. The ecology and evolution of wildlife cancers: Applications for management and conservation. Evol Appl 2020; 13:1719-1732. [PMID: 32821279 PMCID: PMC7428810 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2019] [Revised: 02/23/2020] [Accepted: 02/28/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Ecological and evolutionary concepts have been widely adopted to understand host-pathogen dynamics, and more recently, integrated into wildlife disease management. Cancer is a ubiquitous disease that affects most metazoan species; however, the role of oncogenic phenomena in eco-evolutionary processes and its implications for wildlife management and conservation remains undeveloped. Despite the pervasive nature of cancer across taxa, our ability to detect its occurrence, progression and prevalence in wildlife populations is constrained due to logistic and diagnostic limitations, which suggests that most cancers in the wild are unreported and understudied. Nevertheless, an increasing number of virus-associated and directly transmissible cancers in terrestrial and aquatic environments have been detected. Furthermore, anthropogenic activities and sudden environmental changes are increasingly associated with cancer incidence in wildlife. This highlights the need to upscale surveillance efforts, collection of critical data and developing novel approaches for studying the emergence and evolution of cancers in the wild. Here, we discuss the relevance of malignant cells as important agents of selection and offer a holistic framework to understand the interplay of ecological, epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics of cancer in wildlife. We use a directly transmissible cancer (devil facial tumour disease) as a model system to reveal the potential evolutionary dynamics and broader ecological effects of cancer epidemics in wildlife. We provide further examples of tumour-host interactions and trade-offs that may lead to changes in life histories, and epidemiological and population dynamics. Within this framework, we explore immunological strategies at the individual level as well as transgenerational adaptations at the population level. Then, we highlight the need to integrate multiple disciplines to undertake comparative cancer research at the human-domestic-wildlife interface and their environments. Finally, we suggest strategies for screening cancer incidence in wildlife and discuss how to integrate ecological and evolutionary concepts in the management of current and future cancer epizootics.
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- Rodrigo Hamede
- School of Natural SciencesUniversity of TasmaniaHobartTas.Australia
- Centre for Integrative EcologySchool of Life and Environmental SciencesDeakin UniversityVic.Australia
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- Centre for Biological SciencesUniversity of SouthamptonSouthamptonUK
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- Centre for Biological SciencesUniversity of SouthamptonSouthamptonUK
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- Wildlife Veterinarian, Veterinary Register of TasmaniaSouth HobartTas.Australia
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- School of Natural SciencesUniversity of TasmaniaHobartTas.Australia
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- Centre for Integrative EcologySchool of Life and Environmental SciencesDeakin UniversityVic.Australia
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- Centre de Recherches Ecologiques et Evolutives sur le Cancer/Centre de Recherches en Ecologie et Evolution de la SantéUnité Mixte de RecherchesInstitut de Recherches pour le Développement 224‐Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 5290‐Université de MontpellierMontpellierFrance
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- Centre de Recherches Ecologiques et Evolutives sur le Cancer/Centre de Recherches en Ecologie et Evolution de la SantéUnité Mixte de RecherchesInstitut de Recherches pour le Développement 224‐Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 5290‐Université de MontpellierMontpellierFrance
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- School of Natural SciencesUniversity of TasmaniaHobartTas.Australia
- Centre for Integrative EcologySchool of Life and Environmental SciencesDeakin UniversityVic.Australia
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- Centre de Recherches Ecologiques et Evolutives sur le Cancer/Centre de Recherches en Ecologie et Evolution de la SantéUnité Mixte de RecherchesInstitut de Recherches pour le Développement 224‐Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 5290‐Université de MontpellierMontpellierFrance
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Díaz S, Iglesias D, Villalba A, Carballal MJ. Long-term epidemiological study of disseminated neoplasia of cockles in Galicia (NW Spain): temporal patterns at individual and population levels, influence of environmental and cockle-based factors and lethality. JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES 2016; 39:1027-1042. [PMID: 26813312 DOI: 10.1111/jfd.12436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2015] [Revised: 10/13/2015] [Accepted: 10/14/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The dynamics of disseminated neoplasia (DN) affecting cockles Cerastoderma edule (L.) in Galicia was addressed at individual and population levels. Early stage of DN was characterized by isolated neoplastic cells occurring in branchial vessels or in the connective tissue of gills, mantle, gonad or digestive gland. As disease progressed, the neoplastic cells appeared loose in foci and became widely distributed throughout the organs. In advanced stages, the connective tissue of most organs was infiltrated by neoplastic cells, which displaced normal cells, leading to the loss of the normal tissue/organ architecture. Host defence reaction was occasionally observed. A field survey performed for 7 years, in two cockle beds located in different Galician Rías, showed that DN is a hyperendemic disease usually present all year-round at high prevalence in adult cockles but with annual prevalence minima in spring likely due to the death of heavily affected cockles, concurrently with gonad ripeness-spawning. DN was detected in the cockles ranging from 10 to 39 mm in size; the highest DN prevalence and severity corresponded to the cockles of intermediate size/age (22-29 mm/0.7-1 year old). Sex did not appear to influence DN occurrence. An inhibitory effect of DN on cockle gametogenesis was detected.
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- S Díaz
- Centro de Investigacións Mariñas (CIMA), Consellería do Mar da Xunta de Galicia, Vilanova de Arousa, Spain
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- Centro de Investigacións Mariñas (CIMA), Consellería do Mar da Xunta de Galicia, Vilanova de Arousa, Spain
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- Centro de Investigacións Mariñas (CIMA), Consellería do Mar da Xunta de Galicia, Vilanova de Arousa, Spain
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- Centro de Investigacións Mariñas (CIMA), Consellería do Mar da Xunta de Galicia, Vilanova de Arousa, Spain
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Mateo DR, MacCallum GS, Davidson J. Field and laboratory transmission studies of haemic neoplasia in the soft-shell clam, Mya arenaria, from Atlantic Canada. JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES 2016; 39:913-927. [PMID: 26687447 DOI: 10.1111/jfd.12426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2015] [Revised: 09/26/2015] [Accepted: 09/27/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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A two-year laboratory and field study was initiated in 2001 in response to mass mortalities associated with haemic neoplasia (HN) in 1999 in Prince Edward Island (PEI) soft-shell clams, Mya arenaria. A laboratory proximity experiment (cohabitation) and an inoculation challenge were conducted with clams and mussels (Mytilus edulis). Three field exposure experiments were also conducted, in which naive clams were held in sediment (in trays) or out of sediment (in mesh bags) at three high HN prevalence sites on PEI. There was a conversion to HN positive in clams in the proximity experiment and in clams injected with whole blood and cell-free homogenate, but not at statistically significant levels. No mussels or control clams became HN positive. There was a significant conversion to HN positive in as little as 24 and 58 days after transfer with clams held out of sediment and in sediment, respectively. The laboratory and field experiments' results suggest that HN-infected clams are spreading the disease through water from infected clams to naïve individuals and via transplantation from affected to unaffected sites. Some environmental conditions (e.g. abnormally high water temperature and hypoxia-induced sea lettuce [Ulva lacteus] invasion) may make clams susceptible to infections or exacerbate the proliferation of HN.
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- D R Mateo
- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE, Canada
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- Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Charlottetown, PE, Canada
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- Department of Health Management, Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE, Canada
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Mateo DR, MacCallum GS, McGladdery SE, Davidson J. Distribution of haemic neoplasia of soft-shelled clams in Prince Edward Island: an examination of anthropogenic factors and effects of experimental fungicide exposure. JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES 2016; 39:585-596. [PMID: 26123078 DOI: 10.1111/jfd.12394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2015] [Revised: 04/27/2015] [Accepted: 04/28/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Haemic neoplasia was first considered a disease of concern for soft-shell clams in Prince Edward Island (PEI) when it was diagnosed as the cause of mass mortalities in 1999. The aetiology of the disease remains elusive, but has been associated with environmental degradation. In this study, a 2-year (2001-2002) geographic and seasonal survey was conducted for haemic neoplasia, using histology, in soft-shell clams from PEI. In addition, using geographic information system, the association between anthropogenic factors in the watersheds at sites affected by haemic neoplasia and the prevalence of the disease was investigated. Finally, histopathological changes were assessed in soft-shell clams experimentally exposed to four concentrations of chlorothalonil for 27 days. Haemic neoplasia could not be induced at any concentration of chlorothalonil. Clams exposed to a concentration of 1000 μg L(-1) of the fungicide, however, exhibited an LC50 of 17 days. Although this information provides additional toxicity information (LC50) for soft-shell clams, further experiments are required to assess longer term exposure to the fungicide. The highest prevalences of haemic neoplasia in PEI were found in North River and Miscouche (28.3-50.9% and 33.0-77.8%, respectively). No clear seasonal patterns were found. There was a correlation between haemic neoplasia prevalence and watersheds with a high percentage of potato acreage and forest coverage (P = 0.026 and P = 0.045, respectively), suggesting a link between anthropogenic activity and the prevalence of the disease.
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- D R Mateo
- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE, Canada
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- Gulf Biocontainment Unit, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Charlottetown, PE, Canada
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- St. Andrews Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, St. Andrews, NB, Canada
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- Department of Health Management, Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE, Canada
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Carballal MJ, Barber BJ, Iglesias D, Villalba A. Neoplastic diseases of marine bivalves. J Invertebr Pathol 2015; 131:83-106. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2015.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2014] [Revised: 04/10/2015] [Accepted: 06/19/2015] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Böttger SA, Amarosa EJ, Geoghegan P, Walker CW. Chronic Natural Occurrence of Disseminated Neoplasia in Select Populations of the Soft-Shell Clam,Mya arenaria, in New England. Northeast Nat (Steuben) 2013. [DOI: 10.1656/045.020.0308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Taraska NG, Anne Böttger S. Selective initiation and transmission of disseminated neoplasia in the soft shell clam Mya arenaria dependent on natural disease prevalence and animal size. J Invertebr Pathol 2012; 112:94-101. [PMID: 23079141 DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2012.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2012] [Revised: 09/22/2012] [Accepted: 10/02/2012] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Disseminated neoplasia, a diffuse tumor of the hemolymph system, is one of the six most destructive diseases among bivalve mollusk populations, characterized by the development of abnormal, rounded blood cells that actively proliferate. Though the specific etiology of disseminated neoplasia in Mya arenaria remains undetermined, the involvement of viral pathogens and/or environmental pollutants has been suggested and considered. The current study used 5-bromodeoxyuridine (BrDU) known to induce the murine leukemia virus and filtered neoplastic hemolymph to initiate disseminated neoplasia in clams from different populations and size classes respectively. M. arenaria from three locations of different natural neoplasia occurrences were divided into a control and three experimental treatments and injected with 200 μl of sterile filtered seawater or 50-200 μg/ml BrDU respectively. In a concurrent experiment, animals from different size classes were injected with 2.5% total blood volume of 0.2 μm filtered blood from a fully neoplastic animal. Animals were biopsied weekly and cell neoplasia development was counted and scored as 0-25, 26-50, 51-75 and 76-100% neoplastic hemocytes (stages 1-4) in 50 μl samples. BrDU injection demonstrated that neoplasia development in M. arenaria was dose dependent on BrDU concentration. In addition, natural disease prevalence at the source location determined initiation of neoplasia induction, with animals from the area of the highest natural disease occurrence displaying fastest neoplasia development (p=0.0037). This could imply that depending on the natural disease occurrence, a potential infectious agent may remain dormant in normal (stage 1) individuals in higher concentrations until activated, i.e. through chemical injection or potentially stress. The size experiment demonstrated that only M. arenaria between 40 and 80 mm developed 26-100% neoplastic hemocytes when injected with filtered neoplastic hemolymph, indicating that individuals smaller than 20mm or larger than 80 mm were not or no longer susceptible to disease development. So far neoplasia studies have not considered natural disease prevalence or size involvement in neoplasia development and our results indicate that these should be future considerations in neoplasia examinations.
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- Norah G Taraska
- Department of Biology, West Chester University, West Chester, PA 19383, USA
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Grand FL, Kraffe E, Montaudouin XD, Villalba A, Marty Y, Soudant P. Prevalence, intensity, and aneuploidy patterns of disseminated neoplasia in cockles (Cerastoderma edule) from Arcachon Bay: Seasonal variation and position in sediment. J Invertebr Pathol 2010; 104:110-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2010.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2009] [Revised: 01/27/2010] [Accepted: 01/30/2010] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Assessment of haemic neoplasia in different soft shell clam Mya arenaria populations from eastern Canada by flow cytometry. J Invertebr Pathol 2008; 98:190-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2007.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2007] [Revised: 12/13/2007] [Accepted: 12/20/2007] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Delaporte M, McKenna P, Siah A, Berthe FCJ. Immunophenotyping of Mya arenaria neoplastic hemocytes using propidium iodide and a specific monoclonal antibody by flow cytometry. J Invertebr Pathol 2008; 99:120-2. [PMID: 18534614 DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2008.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2008] [Revised: 04/09/2008] [Accepted: 04/14/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Disseminated neoplasia (DN) is a disorder referred to as hemic neoplasia (HN) in the soft-shell clam Mya arenaria. Traditionally, diagnosis is performed by hematocytology or histology. The intensity of the disease is generally given as the percentage of transformed neoplastic cells out of total number of hemocytes. Flow cytometry techniques have found a field of application in diagnosis of HN with analysis of ploidy. Hemocytes of the soft-shell clams with HN display tetraploid DNA content, as shown by propidium iodide staining. This feature makes difficult HN diagnosis in the soft-shell clam, especially for early stages of the condition, since the percentage of normal circulating cells undergoing mitosis, which also are tetraploid, remains unknown in molluscs. Use of specific monoclonal antibodies in a flow cytometry assay was foreseen as a way to overcome the difficulty. The purpose of this study was to develop a double staining protocol using propidium iodide for hemocyte cycle analysis and the MAb 1E10 for staining of HN cells. Our results showed a correlation between tetraploid and MAb 1E10-stained hemocytes in a single clam with moderate HN. This protocol offers some potential for further investigation of this cell disorder. However, a validation step will be necessary to confirm our preliminary results.
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- Maryse Delaporte
- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PE, Canada.
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Ciocan C, Sunila I. Disseminated neoplasia in blue mussels, Mytilus galloprovincialis, from the Black Sea, Romania. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2005; 50:1335-9. [PMID: 15946706 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2005.04.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Disseminated neoplasia, also called leukemia or hemic neoplasia, has been detected in 15 species of marine bivalve mollusks worldwide. The disease is characterized by the presence of single anaplastic cells with enlarged nuclei and sometimes frequent mitosis, in hemolymph vessels and sinuses. The neoplastic cells gradually replace normal hemocytes leading to the increased mortality of animals. The neoplasia reaches epizootic prevalences in blue mussels, Mytilus trossulus, in some areas, whereas prevalences in Mytilus edulis are generally very low. Mytilus galloprovincialis was suggested to be resistant to the disease although very low prevalences were documented from Spain in the Atlantic Ocean and Italy in the Mediterranean Sea. A case of disseminated neoplasia was discovered in M. galloprovincialis from among 200 specimens studied from the coast of the Romanian Black Sea. Histological preparation revealed the presence of large anaplastic cells with lobed nuclei. This observation extends the geographic range of marine bivalve mollusks with disseminated neoplasia to include the Black Sea.
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- Corina Ciocan
- National Institute for Marine Research and Development, Grigore Antipa, Mamaia Blv. 300, Constanta 8700, Romania
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Leukemia in the soft-shell clam, Mya arenaria, is characterized by tumor cells which are detected initially in the hemolymph. This disease is much more common in clams inhabiting polluted waters, suggesting an environmental component to its pathogenesis. In this study, leukemia cells were identified using a murine monoclonal antibody, 1E10, which recognizes a leukemia-specific protein expressed by tumor cells. Mutant p53 protein was detected using a murine monoclonal antibody (PAb 240) which reacts with mutant p53. Using immunofluorescence, the reactivity of clam cells to the 1E10 antibody was evaluated along with mutant p53 protein reactivity. Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reactions followed by sequence analyses were utilized to examine clams with hemocytes reacting with the p53 antibody for possible p53 gene mutations. Mutant p53 protein was expressed by tumor cells from five animals with advanced disease (in which greater than 90% of cells reacted with 1E10). A C-->G transversion was detected at the end of exon 6 from two of the five animals that reacted with both the mutant p53 antibody and 1E10. This substitution changes the amino acid of this codon from proline to alanine. Overall, our results suggest that environmentally induced alterations in p53 can contribute to the pathogenesis of leukemia in soft-shell clams inhabiting polluted water and/or sediment.
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- C M Barker
- Department of Comparative Medicine, Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, North Grafton, Massachusetts 01536, USA
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Weinberg JR, Leavitt DF, Lancaster BA, Capuzzo JM. Experimental field studies with Mya arenaria (Bivalvia) on the induction and effect of hematopoietic neoplasia. J Invertebr Pathol 1997; 69:183-94. [PMID: 9056469 DOI: 10.1006/jipa.1996.4641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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A field experiment was conducted from 1991 to 1992 to examine induction and impact of hematopoietic neoplasia on the marine bivalve Mya arenaria in southeastern Massachusetts. Clams were collected from Little Buttermilk Bay and separated into three size classes (20-29, 30-39, and 40-49 mm shell length) in the laboratory. These sizes span the range of adults found in the population. A random subsample of these clams was taken to estimate disease prevalence at the start of the experiment, and this was found to be </=10% in all size classes. Remaining clams were assigned randomly to two groups: Control and Treated. "Controls" were injected with filtered seawater, while "Treated" clams were injected with hemocytes extracted from diseased individuals. Injection of diseased hemocytes was performed to increase disease prevalence in the Treated group. Clams were returned to New Bedford Harbor, a more contaminated field location, where hematopoietic neoplasia is more prevalent, in January 1991, and characteristics of both groups were monitored for 555 days. Among Controls, probability of survival was size-dependent, with higher survival rates in larger clams. Treated clams had a lower probability of survival than Controls, and the magnitude of treatment effect increased with size class. The impact on survival was evident after 89 days, but it was first shown to be statistically significant after 189 days. Among Controls, probability of disease was strongly season-dependent, increasing in the large size class from 0.19 in spring to 0.50 in summer. During summer, Treated clams had a higher probability of being diseased than Controls. Among survivors, no significant sublethal effects due to treatment were detected in the field experiment. Experimental manipulation of disease prevalence may be a useful tool in future studies. In addition to results pertaining to disease, this study obtained long-term growth information, by size class, on somatic and reproductive tissue and shell size.
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- J R Weinberg
- Population Dynamics Branch, National Marine Fisheries Service, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 02543, USA
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Sunila I. Serum-cell interactions in transmission of sarcoma in the soft shell clam, Mya arenaria L. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1992; 102:727-30. [PMID: 1355037 DOI: 10.1016/0300-9629(92)90731-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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1. Serum proteins from sarcomatous soft shell clams, Mya arenaria L., enhanced transmission of sarcoma. 2. Sarcoma cells were isolated and administered to the recipients at the same cell density in different sarcoma-protein-free diluents: seawater, serum from normal clams, heat-treated sarcoma serum or protease-digested sarcoma serum. 3. Transmission in these groups was significantly slower than in the group where cells were administered in intact sarcoma serum, demonstrating that the tumor promoting factors in the serum were heat-sensitive proteins. 4. Normal hemocytes administered in sarcoma serum caused mortality but not sarcoma transmission, suggesting the presence of cytotoxic factors in sarcoma serum.
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- I Sunila
- Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Cooperative Oxford Laboratory, MD 21654
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Sunila I, Dungan CF. Different proteins in the hemolymph sera from sarcomatous and healthy soft shell clams, Mya arenaria L. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. B, COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY 1992; 102:621-5. [PMID: 1499299 DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(92)90057-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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1. Serum proteins showed quantitative and qualitative differences between sarcomatous and healthy soft shell clams, Mya arenaria L. 2. Total protein concentration was significantly higher in the serum of sarcomatous clams than of healthy clams. 3. According to SDS-PAGE, more serum proteins with more variability distinguished sarcomatous clams from healthy ones. 4. Sarcomatous clams had unique serum proteins of M(r)23,000, 45,000 and 54,000. Healthy clams had unique serum proteins of M(r) 24,000, 103,000 and 105,000. 5. During disease progression, sarcoma-specific proteins appeared while normal proteins disappeared. 6. We propose that some sarcoma-associated proteins may have tumor promoting and/or cytotoxic functions and that some normal proteins which disappear during disease progression may be involved in the humoral defense system.
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- I Sunila
- Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Cooperative Oxford Laboratory, MD 21654
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Brousseau DJ, Baglivo JA. Field and laboratory comparisons of mortality in normal and neoplastic Mya arenaria. J Invertebr Pathol 1991; 57:59-65. [PMID: 2002244 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2011(91)90041-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
Abstract
The results of a 6-month mark and recapture experiment involving approximately 900 adult Mya arenaria demonstrated that under natural conditions, significantly higher (P much less than .001, chi 2 test) mortality occurred among animals with neoplasia than those diagnosed as normal. Using a blood screening technique, the clams were diagnosed and placed in one of three diagnostic groups based on the severity of the disease (the percentage neoplastic cells per total number of blood cells): Nonneoplastic (NN), 0%; low severity neoplastic (LSN), less than 50%; and high severity neoplastic (HSN), greater than 50%. Fifty-one percent of those clams initially diagnosed as HSN died by the end of the test period as compared to 8% of the LSN clams and only 3% of the normals. Both progression and remission of the disease were also evident. Approximately 10% of the clams in the NN and LSN groups progressed to a LSN or HSN condition, whereas 16% of those clams initially identified as LSN, and that were recovered alive, underwent complete remission during the test period. Comparison of the field results with those of an 18-week laboratory study suggests that studies of mortality done under laboratory conditions may not provide useful data for the interpretation of the quantitative effects of a disease process, such as molluscan neoplasia, on the natural population of the animal studied.
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Affiliation(s)
- D J Brousseau
- Department of Biology, Fairfield University, Connecticut 06430
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