Arachidonate-enriched triglyceride oil does not promote tumor development in a rat medium-term multi-organ carcinogenesis model |
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Authors: | Norio Imai Mayumi Kawabe Seiko Tamano Yuko Doi Hironao Nakashima Mayuko Suguro Takamasa Numano Tomomi Hara Akihiro Hagiwara Fumio Furukawa Yoshihisa Kaneda Norifumi Tateishi Wataru Fujii Hiroshi Kawashima Hiroshi Shibata Yutaka Sakakibara |
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Affiliation: | 1. DIMS Institute of Medical Science Inc., 64 Goura, Nishiazai, Azai-cho, Ichinomiya, Aichi 491-0113, Japan;2. Suntory Business Expert Ltd., 1-1-1 Wakayamadai, Shimamoto-cho, Mishima-gun, Osaka 618-8503, Japan;3. Suntory Wellness Ltd., 1-1-1 Wakayamadai, Shimamoto-cho, Mishima-gun, Osaka 618-8503, Japan |
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Abstract: | The modifying potential on tumor development of arachidonate-enriched triglyceride oil (ARA-oil) containing approximately 40% arachidonic acid was investigated in a medium-term multi-organ carcinogenesis bioassay using male and female F344 rats. The animals were sequentially given five carcinogens with different target sites in the first 4 weeks, and then administered ARA-oil for 24 weeks at dietary levels of 0% (control), 1.25%, 2.5% or 5.0%. No statistically significant differences in incidences and multiplicities of hyperplastic and neoplastic lesions were showed in the large intestine in either sex. In the liver, kidney, and lung in both sexes, and the mammary gland and uterus in females, tumor promoting potential was not evident with ARA-oil treatment. ARA-oil did not affect the quantitative data for glutathione S-transferase placental form positive foci of the liver. Increased induction of hyperplastic or neoplastic lesions in the urinary bladder and thyroid in ARA-oil-treated groups was without dose dependence. In addition, a second experiment with ARA-oil only administration for 8-week revealed no effects on cellular proliferation in the urinary bladder or thyroid in either sex. These results indicate that ARA-oil has no tumor promoting potential in any organs or tissues initiated with the five carcinogens applied in the present study. |
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Keywords: | Arachidonate-enriched triglyceride oil Multi-organ carcinogenesis bioassay No tumor promotion F344 rats |
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