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. 1994 Aug;46(3):215-22.
doi: 10.1016/S0940-2993(11)80085-0.

Simultaneous induction of liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinomas in F-344 rats: establishment of a short hepatocarcinogenesis model

A Zalatnai  1 , K Lapis
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Simultaneous induction of liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinomas in F-344 rats: establishment of a short hepatocarcinogenesis model

A Zalatnai et al. Exp Toxicol Pathol. 1994 Aug.

Abstract

The relationship between liver cirrhosis and diethylnitrosamine (DEN)-induced hepatocarcinogenesis in male F-344 rats was studied. Hepatic cirrhosis was produced by combined administration of CCl4 (0.5 ml/kg b.w. by gavage, three times a week) and phenobarbital (PB) (0.05% in drinking water, continuously for 6 weeks), while the carcinogenic nitrosamine compound was given either preceding or following CCl4 + PB treatment at a single dose of 200 mg/kg b.w., ip. Liver lesions were evaluated histologically at the end of the 4th month. The established cirrhosis completely prevented the formation of hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs), however, CCl4 + PB posttreatment resulted in a strong enhancing effect on DEN-hepatocarcinogenesis: 16 weeks after initiation severe cirrhosis and HCCs occurred simultaneously in more than 90% of the animals. Although the explanation of this highly accelerated carcinoma formation is not known at present, the authors hypothesize that the modulation of the drug-metabolizing enzyme system might play a central role in this profoundly altered host response.

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