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Role of the maternal environment in determining susceptibility to transplacentally induced chemical carcinogenesis in mouse fetuses.

Abstract：

:Treatment of pregnant mice with 3-methylcholanthrene (MC) causes lung and liver tumors in the offspring, the incidences of which are greatly influenced by the Ah locus regulated induction phenotype for aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase activity (AHH) in both the mother and fetuses. In order to examine the biochemical and molecular mechanisms responsible for the modulating effect of maternal environment on tumor susceptibility, reciprocal crosses between responsive C57BL/6 and non-responsive DBA/2 mice were made and the pregnant mothers were treated i.p. on the 17th day of gestation with either olive oil alone, 30 mg/kg of MC, or 30 mg/kg of beta-naphthoflavone (beta NF). At various times after injection, the mothers were killed and the fetuses removed for enzymatic and molecular blot analysis. In fetal lung tissues, the absolute levels and relative induction ratios of AHH activity from D2B6F1 fetuses were very similar to those obtained in B6D2F1 fetuses during the first 24 h following a transplacental exposure to either inducing agent. This was also the case 48 h after an injection of beta NF. However, 48 h after exposure to MC, the AHH activity in fetal lungs from B6 mothers had declined to practically control values, whereas fetal lungs from D2 mothers still exhibited a high level of AHH activity. Similar induction kinetics for the CYPIA1 gene were obtained in fetal livers. These results were confirmed at the RNA level by quantitative slot-blot analysis of fetal RNA preparations. In both organs, treatment with inducing agents for the P450IA1 gene resulted in a rapid and early induction of CYPIA1 RNA by 4 h. Fetuses from D2 mothers, however, showed a more sustained induction of CYPIA1 RNA following exposure to MC than did fetuses from B6 mothers. These results suggest that the observed increase in tumor susceptibility observed in the offspring of D2 mothers compared to the offspring of B6 mothers was due, at least in part, to the differences in the persistence of induction of the CYPIA1 gene locus, and may be the result of differences in the clearance rates of MC from the fetal and maternal compartments or its pharmacokinetic distribution in the two types of maternal environments.

journal_name

Carcinogenesis

journal_title

Carcinogenesis

authors

Miller MS,Jones AB,Chauhan DP,Anderson LM

doi

10.1093/carcin/11.11.1979

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1990-11-01 00:00:00

pages

1979-84

issue

eissn

0143-3334

issn

1460-2180

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Role of the maternal environment in determining susceptibility to transplacentally induced chemical carcinogenesis in mouse fetuses.