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Title: Use of a rainbow trout oligonucleotide microarray to determine transcriptional patterns in aflatoxin B1-induced hepatocellular carcinoma compared to adjacent liver.

Authors: Tilton, Susan C; Gerwick, Lena G; Hendricks, Jerry D; Rosato, Caprice S; Corley-Smith, Graham; Givan, Scott A; Bailey, George S; Bayne, Christopher J; Williams, David E

Published In Toxicol Sci, (2005 Dec)

Abstract: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common malignant tumors worldwide, and its occurrence is associated with a number of environmental factors including ingestion of the dietary contaminant aflatoxin B(1) (AFB(1)). Research over the last 40 years has revealed rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) to be an excellent research model for study of AFB(1)-induced hepatocarcinogenesis; however, little is known about changes at the molecular level in trout tumors. We have developed a rainbow trout oligonucleotide array containing 1672 elements representing over 1400 genes of known or probable relevance to toxicology, comparative immunology, carcinogenesis, endocrinology, and stress physiology. In this study, we applied microarray technology to examine gene expression of AFB(1)-induced HCC in the rainbow trout tumor model. Carcinogenesis was initiated in trout embryos with 50 ppb AFB(1), and after 13 months control livers, tumors, and tumor-adjacent liver tissues were isolated from juvenile fish. Global gene expression was determined in histologically confirmed HCCs compared to noncancerous adjacent tissue and sham-initiated control liver. We observed distinct gene regulation patterns in HCC compared to noncancerous tissue including upregulation of genes important for cell cycle control, transcription, cytoskeletal formation, and the acute phase response and downregulation of genes involved in drug metabolism, lipid metabolism, and retinol metabolism. Interestingly, the expression profiles observed in trout HCC are similar to the transcriptional signatures found in human and rodent HCC, further supporting the validity of the model. Overall, these findings contribute to a better understanding of the mechanism of AFB(1)-induced hepatocarcinogenesis in trout and identify conserved genes important for carcinogenesis in species separated evolutionarily by more than 400 million years.

PubMed ID: 16141433 Exiting the NIEHS site

MeSH Terms: Aflatoxin B1/toxicity*; Animals; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/chemically induced; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/genetics*; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/pathology; Disease Models, Animal; Gene Expression Profiling; Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/drug effects; Liver Neoplasms/chemically induced; Liver Neoplasms/genetics*; Liver Neoplasms/pathology; Liver/drug effects; Liver/pathology; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis*; Oncorhynchus mykiss/genetics*; RNA, Messenger/metabolism; RNA, Neoplasm/analysis; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; Transcription, Genetic/drug effects*

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