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Coexposure to ethanol with N-nitrosodimethylamine or 4- (methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone during lactation of rats: Marked increase in O-6-methylguanine-DNA adducts in maternal mammary gland and in suckling lung and kidney

  1. Author:
    Chhabra, S. K.
    Anderson, L. M.
    Perella, C.
    Desai, D.
    Amin, S.
    Kyrtopoulos, S. A.
    Souliotis, V. L.
  2. Author Address

    SAIC Frederick Inc, Frederick Canc Res & Dev Ctr, Bldg 538, Ft Detrick, MD 21702 USA. SAIC Frederick Inc, Frederick Canc Res & Dev Ctr, Ft Detrick, MD 21702 USA. NCI, Comparat Carcinogenesis Lab, Ft Detrick, MD 21702 USA. Amer Hlth Fdn, Valhalla, NY 10595 USA. Natl Hellen Res Fdn, Inst Biol Res & Biotechnol, GR-11635 Athens, Greece.
    1. Year: 2000
  1. Journal: Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology
    1. 169
    2. 2
    3. Pages: 191-200
  2. Type of Article: Article
  1. Abstract:

    Use of alcoholic beverages increases risk of cancer at several target sites, including the breast. Of several possible mechanisms for this effect, competitive inhibition by ethanol of hepatic clearance of nitrosamines, resulting in increased dose delivery to posthepatic tissues; gives the quantitatively most pronounced enhancement. We investigated whether this effect would pertain to the mammary gland, and to ethanol and nitrosamines delivered translactationally to sucklings Ethanol (1.6 g/kg) was administered by gavage to nursing Sprague-Dawley rats 10 min before 5 mg/kg N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) or 50 mg/kg 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK); treatment was on postnatal days 1, 7, or 14. Tissues taken 4 h later for analysis of O-6-methylguanine in DNA were liver, blood, and mammary glands from the mothers, and liver, lung, kidney, and blood from the sucklings. Ethanol cotreatment resulted in a marked, Ill-fold increase in O-6-methylguanine adducts from NDMA in mammary gland, as well as smaller but significant increases in this tissue from NNK and in maternal blood cells from both chemicals; adducts in maternal liver decreased slightly. In the sucklings, ethanol cotreatment also lowered adducts in liver after NDMA or NNK treatment. After NDMA, adducts were also defected in suckling lung and kidney and were increased five- to 10-fold after ethanol coexposure. Adducts from either chemical, with or without ethanol, decreased markedly in all suckling tissues with development from postnatal day 1 to day 14. Thus ethanol coexposure with nitrosamines increases O-6-methylguanine DNA adducts in mammary gland and strongly influences adduct formation in suckling tissues after translactational delivery. (C) 2000 Academic Press.

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