Nervous-system-specific carcinogenesis by ethylnitrosourea in the rat: molecular and cellular aspects
Nervous-system-specific carcinogenesis by ethylnitrosourea in the rat: molecular and cellular aspects
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乙基亚硝基脲对大鼠神经系统特异性致癌作用:分子和细胞方面
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1977
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L. Lomakina
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M. Rajewsky;L. Augenlicht;H. Biessmann;R. Goth;D. Hülser;O. Laerum;L. Lomakina
Present evidence suggests that the process of neoplastic transformation can be initiated by direct structural alterations of the genetic material of target cells. Correspondingly, there is a strong correlation between oncogenicity and mutagenicity for almost all carcinogens tested (McCann et a1. 1975; Montesano et ar. 1976). Covalent binding to DNA has been shown for the electrophilic, ultimate metabolic derivatives of a large number of chemical carcinogens (Miller and Miller 1974). Many aromatic carcinogens are, in addition, capable of stacking interactions with DNA (Ames et al. 1972). On the other hand, extensive studies on both the metabolic activation of oncogenic agents (Magee 1974) and the physical chemistry of their primary interactions with cellular constituents have thus far failed to establish a specific, common type of "oncogenic" reaction at the molecular level (Heidelberger 1975). Instead, it appears that a variety of initial molecular alterations caused by different types of carcinogenic agents may share the property of increasing the probability for expression of a "neoplastic phenotype." The probability of neoplastic transfonnation, however, is unlikely to be a simple function of the type and degree of primary carcinogen-cell interaction. Specific phenotypic properties of the target cells at the time of exposure to a carcinogen, i.e., their state of differentiation and proliferation, may be equally important determinants (Rajewsky 1972; Goth and Rajewsky 1974a,b; Rajcwsky et a1. 1976). Particularly relevant in this context are the rate of target-cell proliferation, since repeated rounds of DNA replication and cell division seem to be required (or the "fixation" of carcinogen-induced genome alterations (Sachs 1966; Rajewsky 1967, 1972; Kakunaga 1974),