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. 1987 Nov;129(2):232–241.

Analysis of ras genes and linked viral sequences in rat hepatocarcinogenesis.

N Chandar 1, B Lombardi 1, W Schulz 1, J Locker 1
PMCID: PMC1899727  PMID: 3314528

Abstract

After long-term feeding of a choline-devoid diet to rats, the authors analyzed rasK, rasH, and rasN transcripts and gene structure in livers and liver tumors. They controlled their analysis by studying cell lines derived from chemically induced hepatomas. Transcripts from all three genes were elevated in all tumors, but not in the livers from which they arose. The transcript elevations may represent an effect of active cell proliferation in the tumors. Clone HiHi-3, derived from the Kirsten murine sarcoma virus, detected a large number of hybridization bands, most of which were not part of the rasK-p21 gene. Most tumors had an altered band at 2.6 kb; some had other altered bands. No alterations were seen in liver DNA, and none of the cell lines showed the 2.6 kb band. At low stringency, a rasH probe, which contains a short segment of a similar viral sequence, also detected altered bands in tumors and a single treated liver. These changes in endogenous viral sequences of the rat genome appear to be characteristic of carcinogenesis by a choline-devoid diet.

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