Mechanisms of arsenic-induced cell transformation

Biological Trace Element Research
J C BarrettT C Lee

Abstract

Arsenic is a well-established carcinogen in humans, but there is little evidence for its carcinogenicity in animals and it is inactive as an initiator or tumor promoter in two-stage models of carcinogenicity in mice. Studies with cells in culture have provided some possible mechanisms by which arsenic and arsenical compounds may exert a carcinogenic activity. Sodium arsenite and sodium arsenate were observed to induce morphological transformation of Syrian hamster embryo cells in a dose-dependent manner. The trivalent sodium arsenite was greater than tenfold more potent than the pentavalent sodium arsenate. The compounds also exhibited toxicity; however, transformation was observed at nontoxic as well as toxic doses. At low doses, enhanced colony forming efficiency of the cells was observed. To understand the mechanism of arsenic-induced transformation, the genetic effects of the two arsenicals were examined over the same doses that induced transformation. No arsenic-induced gene mutations were detected at two genetic loci. However, cell transformation and cytogenetic effects, including endoreduplication, chromosome aberrations, and sister chromatid exchanges, were induced by the arsenicals with similar dose responses. These re...Continue Reading

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