Generalized cellular hypertrophy is induced by a dual-acting PPAR agonist in rat urinary bladder urothelium in vivo.

Abstract:

:Some developmental dual-acting PPARalpha/gamma agonists, such as ragaglitazar, have shown carcinogenic effects in the rodent urinary bladder urothelium after months-years of dosing. We examined early (precancerous) changes in the bladder urothelium of rats orally dosed with ragaglitazar, using a newly developed flow cytometric method. Following 3 weeks of oral ragaglitazar dosing, increases in physical size occurred in a generalized fashion in rat bladder urothelial cells, determined by flow cytometry. Protein/DNA measurements confirmed increased protein content of urothelial cells in the bladder, and hypertrophy was observed in the kidney pelvis urothelium by histopathology. In animals exhibiting urothelial hypertrophy, no cell cycle changes were detected in parallel samples of bladder urothelium. Interestingly, urothelial cells from normal rats were found to constitute a unique type of noncycling population, with high G2/M fractions. In summary, our findings showed that in the urothelium of ragaglitazar-treated animals, hypertrophy (increased size and protein content per cell) was an early change, that affected the whole bladder urothelial cell population. The urothelial hypertrophy was primary, i.e., occurred in the absence of similarly pronounced changes in cell cycle distributions. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a direct hypertrophic effect of a PPAR agonist. Urothelial hypertrophy might be a relevant early biological endpoint in mechanistic studies regarding the bladder-carcinogenic effect of PPAR agonists.

journal_name

Toxicol Pathol

journal_title

Toxicologic pathology

authors

Oleksiewicz MB,Thorup I,Nielsen HS,Andersen HV,Hegelund AC,Iversen L,Guldberg TS,Brinck PR,Sjogren I,Thinggaard UK,Jørgensen L,Jensen MB

doi

10.1080/01926230500214657

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2005-01-01 00:00:00

pages

552-60

issue

5

eissn

0192-6233

issn

1533-1601

pii

W689737577X24518

journal_volume

33

pub_type

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