The neoplastic potential of rat tracheal epithelial cell lines induced by dibenzo(a, i)pyrene and 1-nitropyrene
- West Virginia Univ. Morgantown, WV (United States)
- West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV (United States); and others
The rat tracheal epithelial (RTE) cell transformation system is an important short-term assay for respiratory carcinogenesis. In our laboratories, studies have been performed using this assay system to determine the carcinogenic potential of dibenzo(a,i)pyrene (DBP) and 1-nitropyrene (1-NP), two compounds commonly contaminating occupational and environmental settings. RTE cells were exposed in vivo to DBP or 1-NP by intertracheal instillation. RTE cells were then isolated and plated on a medium for determination of cloning and transformation frequencies. Cell lines established from transformed cells induced by DBP and 1-NP were analyzed for their neoplastic potential with the soft agar cloning and the athymic nude mouse tumorigenicity assays. Results showed that: (1) incidence of transformed foci in cultures treated with DBP or 1-NP in vivo was significantly higher than that in the control cultures; (2) 8 and 25 cell lines were established from 28 and 48 transformed foci induced by DBP and 1-NP, respectively; (3) 3 of 5 cell lines from DBP and 5 anchorage independent growth in soft agar; (4) some of the cell lines from DBP and 1-NP induced transformed foci formed tumors after cells were injected in athymic nude mice. These results indicate that in vivo exposure to DBP and 1-NP can induce RTE cell transformation and that transformed cells induced by DBP and 1-NP may have neoplastic potential.
- OSTI ID:
- 530877
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9704100-; ISSN 0893-6692; TRN: 97:003016-0050
- Journal Information:
- Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, Vol. 29, Issue Suppl.28; Conference: 28. annual meeting of the Environmental Mutagen Society, Minneapolis, MN (United States), 19-23 Apr 1997; Other Information: PBD: 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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