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. 1971 Mar;25(1):109–120. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1971.16

Cytoplasmic Changes During Thioacetamide Induced Hepatocarcinogenesis in Rats

T K Shetty, L M Narurkar, M V Narurkar
PMCID: PMC2008563  PMID: 4397224

Abstract

Cytoplasmic changes were investigated in livers of rats at various intervals up to 50 weeks during primary induction of hepatoma by thioacetamide feeding.

Microsomal Glucose-6-phosphatase and ATPase activities were shown to decrease progressively with increased period of thioacetamide feeding the fall in activities being more pronounced during the first 15 weeks.

Hormonal induction of tryptophan pyrrolase and tyrosine transaminase activities was shown to undergo a significant decrease of 65% and 55% respectively at the end of 50 weeks feeding.

The substrate induced tryptophan pyrrolase activity was decreased to 50% during the 50 weeks period whereas the substrate induced tyrosine transaminase activity gradually increased to 200%. The latter is attributable to differences in the optimal induction dose of tyrosine in normal and carcinogen fed rats.

The m-RNA template lifetime for tryptophan pyrrolase was shown to be exceeding 24 hours in normal rats as against that of 13 hours in rats fed with carcinogen for 30 weeks. On the other hand the m-RNA template lifetime for tyrosine transaminase was 3 hours in control rats while it was 7 hours in the carcinogen fed rats.

The observed changes were shown to occur long before the onset of malignant transformation.

The alterations in terms of decreased Glucose-6-phosphatase and substrate induced tryptophan pyrrolase activities were shown to be reversible when the carcinogen was withdrawn from the diet after 30 weeks of feeding.

The significance of these observations is discussed in relation to damage to endoplasmic reticulum during hepatocarcinogenesis.

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