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Tumor induction in rats by feeding aminopyrine or oxytetracycline with nitrite

Abstract

Sprague-Dawley rats were given combinations of aminopyrine or oxytetracycline and sodium nitrite in drinking water. Of 30 animals receiving 0.1 percent (1,000 ppm) of aminopyrine and sodium nitrite for 30 weeks, 29 died with hemangioendothelial sarcomas of the liver. The same tumor caused death in 26 of 30 animals that received 0.025 percent (250 ppm) of both aminopyrine and sodium nitrite for 50 weeks. No animals in a control group of the same size that received 0.1 percent aminopyrine for 30 weeks developed this tumor, although one-half of them were still alive 2 years after the experiment was begun. After feeding a comparable dose (0.1 percent) of oxytetracycline and sodium nitrite for 60 weeks, liver tumors were present in 4 of 30 rats (3 hepatocellular tumors and 1 cholangioma). Since aminopyrine has been widely used for medicinal purposes in the human population, it is possible that many people have been exposed to a potent carcinogen (dimethylnitrosamine) by its formation in vivo. It is not certain whether the result of feeding oxytetracycline and sodium nitrite indicates significant carcinogenicity of this combination. (auth)
Publication Date:
Jan 01, 1975
Product Type:
Journal Article
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: Int. J. Cancer; (Denmark); Journal Volume: 16
Subject:
62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; AMINES; CARCINOGENESIS; NEOPLASMS; INDUCTION; NITRITES; CARCINOGENS; DRINKING WATER; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASMS; FOOD; HEPATOMAS; LIVER; ORGANIC NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; RATS; SARCOMAS; ANIMALS; BODY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DISEASES; GLANDS; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; MAMMALS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PATHOGENESIS; RODENTS; VERTEBRATES; WATER; 550600* - Medicine; 550900 - Pathology
OSTI ID:
7295888
Research Organizations:
Oak Ridge National Lab., TN
Country of Origin:
Denmark
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: CODEN: IJCNA
Submitting Site:
DK
Size:
Pages: 211-215
Announcement Date:
Jan 01, 1977

Citation Formats

Taylor, H W, and Luinsky, W. Tumor induction in rats by feeding aminopyrine or oxytetracycline with nitrite. Denmark: N. p., 1975. Web. doi:10.1002/ijc.2910160203.
Taylor, H W, & Luinsky, W. Tumor induction in rats by feeding aminopyrine or oxytetracycline with nitrite. Denmark. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.2910160203
Taylor, H W, and Luinsky, W. 1975. "Tumor induction in rats by feeding aminopyrine or oxytetracycline with nitrite." Denmark. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.2910160203.
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title = {Tumor induction in rats by feeding aminopyrine or oxytetracycline with nitrite}
author = {Taylor, H W, and Luinsky, W}
abstractNote = {Sprague-Dawley rats were given combinations of aminopyrine or oxytetracycline and sodium nitrite in drinking water. Of 30 animals receiving 0.1 percent (1,000 ppm) of aminopyrine and sodium nitrite for 30 weeks, 29 died with hemangioendothelial sarcomas of the liver. The same tumor caused death in 26 of 30 animals that received 0.025 percent (250 ppm) of both aminopyrine and sodium nitrite for 50 weeks. No animals in a control group of the same size that received 0.1 percent aminopyrine for 30 weeks developed this tumor, although one-half of them were still alive 2 years after the experiment was begun. After feeding a comparable dose (0.1 percent) of oxytetracycline and sodium nitrite for 60 weeks, liver tumors were present in 4 of 30 rats (3 hepatocellular tumors and 1 cholangioma). Since aminopyrine has been widely used for medicinal purposes in the human population, it is possible that many people have been exposed to a potent carcinogen (dimethylnitrosamine) by its formation in vivo. It is not certain whether the result of feeding oxytetracycline and sodium nitrite indicates significant carcinogenicity of this combination. (auth)}
doi = {10.1002/ijc.2910160203}
journal = []
volume = {16}
journal type = {AC}
place = {Denmark}
year = {1975}
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