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DNA alterations in rat organs after chronic exposure to cigarette smoke and/or ethanol ingestion
No full textIn spite of the epidemiological evidence supporting a synergism between alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking in the pathogenesis of cancers of the aerodigestive tract, there is a paucity of experimental studies evaluating the effects of these agents under well-controlled conditions and exploring the mechanisms involved. We exposed groups of female BD rats, aged 8 months, to ethanol (5% in drinking water for 8 consecutive months) and/or whole-body to mainstream cigarette smoke (1 h/day, 5 days/week for 8 months). DNA was purified from different organs and analyzed for the presence of DNA- protein crosslinks and 32P-postlabeled DNA adducts after butanol enrichment. No significant increase of DNA-protein crosslinks, compared to untreated controls, was induced by any treatment in liver, lung, or heart. 'Spontaneous' nucleotidic modifications were detected by 32p-postlabeling in organs of untreated rats, with the highest levels occurring in the heart. Ingestion of ethanol did not affect DNA adduct levels in any of the organs examined: esophagus, liver, lung, and heart. Exposure to cigarette smoke induced formation of DNA adducts in the lung and heart, but not in the esophagus or liver. The combined ingestion of ethanol resulted in a significant formation of smoke-related DNA adducts in the esophagus and in their further, dramatic increase in the heart. It thus appears that ethanol consumption increases the bioavailability of DNA binding smoke components in the upper digestive tract and favors their systemic distribution. The mechanisms responsible for the interaction between ethanol and smoke and for the selective localization of DNA alterations in different organs are discussed. Formation of DNA adducts in the organs examined may be relevant in the pathogenesis of lung and esophageal cancers as well as in the pathogenesis of other types of chronic degenerative diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and cardiomyopathies. - Izzotti, A., Balansky, R. M., Blagoeva, P.M., Mircheva, Z.I., Tulimiero, L., Cartiglia, C., De Flora, S. DNA alterations in rat organs after chronic exposure to cigarette smoke and/or ethanol ingestion
Mechanisms of N-acetylcysteine in the prevention of DNA damage and cancer, with special reference to smoking-related end-points
No full textEffects of N-acetylcysteine in an oesophageal carcinogenesis model in rats treated with diethylnitrosamine and diethyldithiocarbamate
No full textLess than additive interaction between cigarette smoke and chromium(VI) in inducing clastogenic damage in rodents
No full textBirth-related genomic and transcriptional changes in mouse lung: Modulation by transplacental N-acetylcysteine
No full textBirth is characterized by a sudden transition from the maternal-mediated respiration to the autonomous pulmonary respiration. Notwithstanding the importance of the involved functional and metabolic changes, little is known about possible DNA alterations occurring in the lung during the perinatal period. We comparatively evaluated genomic and transcriptional changes in the lung of fetuses and newborn Swiss albino mice, whose dams had either been untreated or treated with oral N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) throughout the pregnancy period. In the less than 24h period elapsing between the end of fetal life and the start of post-natal life, nucleotide alterations occurred in mouse lung, as shown by a significant increase of both bulky DNA adducts and 8-hydroxy-2′-deoxyguanosine levels, detected by 32P post-labeling procedures. The frequency of micronuclei in peripheral blood erythrocytes was not significantly increased after birth. Multigene expression analysis of 746 selected genes, by cDNA arrays, showed that 33 of them (4.4%) were upregulated in the lung of newborn mice, as compared with fetuses. The overexpressed genes were mainly involved in protective mechanism as a response to oxidative changes, alterations of glutathione metabolism, cellular stress, and damage to DNA and proteins. The transplacental treatment with NAC totally prevented birth-related genomic alterations in lung DNA. NAC did not change the basal gene expression in mouse fetal lung, but attenuated the upregulation of most genes involved in oxidative stress, stress response, and DNA repair in the lung of newborn mice. In fact, only 13 genes (1.7%) were overexpressed in newborns from NAC-treated dams. It therefore appears that administration of NAC during pregnancy is beneficial not only to counteract the adverse effects of toxic agents, as supported by previous studies, but also to attenuate birth-related DNA alterations. © 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Metabolic activation of a cigarette smoke condensate by woodchuck liver, as related to sex, pregnancy, hepatitis virus infection and primary hepatocellular carcinoma
No full textExperimental databases on inhibition of the bacterial mutagenicity of 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide and cigarette smoke
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Modulation of apoptosis by cigarette smoke and cancer chemopreventive agents in the respiratory tract of rats
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