Sequential Changes in Growth Kinetics and Cellular Phenotype During Hepatocarcinogenesis

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Journal J Cancer Res Clin Oncol

Specialty Oncology

Date 1989 Jan 1

PMID 2760097

Citations 4

Authors

H Zerban

H M Rabes

P Bannasch

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Abstract

Sequential changes in cell proliferation and cellular phenotype during hepatocarcinogenesis induced in rats with N-nitrosomorpholine were investigated by autoradiographic determination of the [3H]thymidine-labelling index in morphologically defined focal lesions and extrafocal hepatic tissue at different times between 4 and 48 weeks after withdrawal of the carcinogen (stop model). The labelling index was found to be significantly increased in all types of preneoplastic and neoplastic hepatic lesions as compared to both the liver tissue of untreated controls and the extrafocal parenchyma of N-nitrosomorpholine-treated rats. However, the extent of the increase in labelling index differed in the phenotypically diverse types of preneoplastic and neoplastic lesions. There was a significant but relatively small increase in the labelling index in clear and acidophilic cell foci. A much stronger elevation of cell proliferation was characteristic of mixed and basophilic cell foci. The development of hepatocellular adenomas and carcinomas from preneoplastic hepatic foci was further characterized by an additional increase in cell proliferation. Each specific cellular phenotype was associated with a rather uniform proliferation rate, which remained elevated at all time points studied, suggesting that the rate of cell proliferation in the phenotypically diverse preneoplastic hepatic foci mainly reflects the intrinsic growth potential of the respective cellular phenotypes. The results support the concept that the predominant sequence of cellular changes in hepatocarcinogenesis induced by the stop model leads from the clear and acidophilic cell foci, storing glycogen in excess, through mixed and basophilic cell foci to hepatocellular adenomas and carcinomas. The fact that the labelling index of the extrafocal liver tissue of N-nitrosomorpholine-treated rats was also significantly higher than that of the normal parenchyma of untreated controls might indicate an involvement of extrafocal hepatocytes, in addition to that of foci of altered hepatocytes, in hepatocarcinogenesis.

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