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Free Radical Injury and Liver Tumor Promotion

Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261

James M. Betschart

Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261

Mohamed A. Virji

Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261

Sikandar L. Katyal

Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261

Hisashi Shinozuka

Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261

One of the underlying mechanisms of tumor promotion both in the skin and liver involves free radical mediated injury to informational macromolecules of target cells. A choline-deficient (CD) diet, which is an efficient liver tumor promoter, induces peroxidative damage of liver cell membrane lipids. By modifying components of a CD diet, we have shown that the efficacy of the promotion is correlated with the extent of lipid peroxidation. The substitution of fats in a CD diet with predominantly polyunsaturated fat and the addition of methapyrilene to a CD diet enhances membrane lipid peroxidation and the promoting effects. An antioxidant (BHT) and hypolipidemic peroxisome proliferators (BR.931 and DEHP) suppress both of these effects. Contrary to these findings, phenobarbital did not induce membrane lipid peroxidation, and its addition to a CD diet inhibited the diet-induced lipid peroxidation, though such a combination exerted a stronger promoting action. Thus, a CD diet and phenobarbital exert their promoting actions through different mechanisms. The consequence of membrane lipid peroxidation in the liver cells induced by a CD diet may be multiple. Our recent study of surface membrane insulin receptors of liver cells of rats fed a CD diet showed a decrease in number and an enhanced binding affinity leading to altered responsiveness of liver cells to insulin mediated glycogen synthesis. It is suggested that CD diet-induced lipid peroxidation leads to functional alterations of membrane receptors involved in cell growth control and may thereby exert its promoting action.

Toxicologic Pathology, Vol. 15, No. 1, 51-59 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/019262338701500106


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