[Histological study of urinary bladder tumor: DNA of rat urinary bladder tumor caused by N-butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl) nitrosamine and that of human bladder tumor].
Male Fisher rats were treated with 0.5% BBN, and the appearance of cancer in the rat's bladder was observed successively. The quantities of DNA in the normal and tumorous tissues were compared with those in the bladder cancer excised from man; and, the bladder cancer produced in the rat and that occurring in man were compared. 96 rats were divided into 4 groups, and given 8, 16, 24 or 32 weeks of treatment with BBN. Papillomas appeared after administration for 8 weeks, and with subsequent increase in the period of administration the rate of canceration increased. The cancerous tissue proliferated papillarily , the malignancy was grade 1 to 2, no case showed infiltration into the muscle layer, and the quantity of DNA scarcely changed with time, always showing a peak near 2c. In the papillary type of bladder cancer in man, the quantity of DNA showed little change at any stage, and little tendency of infiltration; and, the growth pattern was similar to that of the BBN-induced cancer in rats. On the other hand, non-papillary cancer in man showed a flat histogram of DNA, had a strong tendency of infiltration, and showed a growth pattern different from that of the BBN-induced cancer in rats, thus the BBN-induced cancer in the rat cannot be used as a model of non-papillary infiltrative cancer.
D000818:Animals; D002085:Butylhydroxybutylnitrosamine; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; D004273:DNA, Neoplasm / Q000032:analysis*; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009602:Nitrosamines; D010212:Papilloma / Q000032:analysis / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000473:pathology*; D051381:Rats; D011916:Rats, Inbred F344; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000032:analysis / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000473:pathology*
D004273:DNA, Neoplasm; D009602:Nitrosamines; D002085:Butylhydroxybutylnitrosamine