title: Influences of sphingosine on two-stage skin tumorigenesis in Sencar mice.
abstract: Sphingosine (SPH) was studied as an inhibitor of skin tumor promotion in skin cancer initiated by 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]-anthracene (DMBA) and promoted by 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA). Two tumorigenesis studies were conducted using female Sencar mice treated with 10 nmol DMBA in 0.2 ml acetone at 8 weeks of age and promoted beginning 1 week later with 3.2 nmol TPA applied twice per week. In the high-dose study, 10 mumol SPH was applied 30 min before each TPA treatment. The low-dose study used 0.5, 0.05, or 0.01 mumol treatments with SPH 30 min before TPA. In the high-dose study SPH treatment alone following initiation by DMBA, and SPH treatment preceding TPA in DMBA-initiated mice accelerated the development of papillomas in comparison with the DMBA/TPA-treated group. The low-dose experiment showed no consistent alteration of tumorigenesis by SPH in the DMBA/TPA-treated groups, and low doses of SPH following DMBA did not promote skin tumorigenesis. SPH treatment did not alter body weight in either experiment.
authors.affiliation: Eppley Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha 68198.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Enkvetchakul
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Barnett
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Liotta
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Geisler
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Menaldino
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Merrill
authors.forename: D F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Birt
mesh_terms: D015127:9,10-Dimethyl-1,2-benzanthracene / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors; D000818:Animals; D016588:Anticarcinogenic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D001835:Body Weight / Q000187:drug effects; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000139:chemically induced; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005260:Female; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D010212:Papilloma / Q000139:chemically induced; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000139:chemically induced*; D013110:Sphingosine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D016588:Anticarcinogenic Agents; D015127:9,10-Dimethyl-1,2-benzanthracene; D013110:Sphingosine; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate