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TOXICOLOGIC PATHOLOGY
Volume 29, Issue 4, Pages 479-482Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/01926230152499962
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B6C3F1 mice; cell proliferation; hepatoblastoma; immunohistochemistry; liver; transforming growth factor alpha
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Transforming growth factor alpha (TGF-alpha) is a potent stimulator of normal hepatocyte proliferation, considered to have relationship to the liver regeneration or carcinogenesis. In this study, we investigated immunohistochemically the association between expression of TGF-alpha and cell proliferation activity in mouse hepatoblastomas (HBs) and hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) induced in B6C3F1 mice by diethylnitrosamine and sodium phenobarbital. The TGF-alpha-positive rate in HBs (29.2%) was significantly higher than that in HCCs (12.7%). Likewise, the proliferating cell nuclear antigen-positive rate (22.2%) was higher than the HCC value (14.5%). On the individual data for both TGF-alpha and PCNA, most of the HBs showed higher positive rates than HCCs. In HBs, TGF-alpha was localized only in the nuclei, whereas some HCC cells stained positive both in their nuclei and cytoplasm (0.6%). These results suggest expression of TGF-alpha and its localization might be linked to cell proliferation and play a role in malignant progression of mouse HBs.
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