PMID: 6108159Oct 1, 1980Paper

Synergistic effect of a choline-devoid diet and phenobarbital in promoting the emergence of foci of gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase-positive hepatocytes in the liver of carcinogen-treated rats

Cancer Research
H Shinozuka, B Lombardi

Abstract

The effect of feeding phenobarbital (PHB) with a choline-devoid (CD) diet on the emergence of foci of gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase (GGT)-positive hepatocytes in the liver of carcinogen-treated rats was investigated. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were given a single dose of diethylnitrosamine (50 mg/kg) 18 hr after a partial hepatectomy and 10 days later were placed on a plain choline-supplemented (CS) diet, a plain CD diet, or the CS and CD diets containing 0.06% PHB. Groups of rats were killed after 5 and 7 weeks of feeding each of the four diets, the livers were taken, and the number and size of foci of GGT-positive hepatocytes were determined. In rats fed the CS + PHB diet, the number of foci per sq cm of liver section was greater than that in rats fed the plain CS diet but smaller than that in rats fed the plain CD diet. Addition of PHB to the CD diet resulted in twice as many foci as in the plain CD diet and foci larger than those resulting from the plain CD diet. THe hepatocytes in the foci of rats fed th CD and CD + PHB diets showed, uniformly, not only GGT positively but also a relative absence of fatty change. The results indicate that PHB and a CD diet, when combined, have a synergistic effect in promoting the evolution of...Continue Reading

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