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SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY
Volume 38, Issue 5, Pages 549-555Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS AS
DOI: 10.1080/00365520310002913
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colorectal cancer; colorectal adenomas; fecal water; genotoxicity; proliferation; risk marker
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Background: The free water phase of feces (fecal water) may mediate the effects of diet on colon carcinogenesis. We examined the effects of fecal water from adenoma patients and controls on three parameters in colonocytes believed to be relevant to tumorigenesis, i.e. genotoxicity in intact cells and on isolated DNA, proliferative activity and activator protein-1 (AP-1) activity. Methods: Genotoxicity in intact colonic cells was assayed using the single-cell gel electrophoresis assay ('comet' assay) and on isolated DNA using double-stranded DNA from the X-174 RF plasmid. Cell proliferation was assessed using the commercially available 'alamar blue' proliferation kit and AP-1 activity using cells transiently transfected with an AP-1-luciferase reporter construct. Results: The data showed that lipid extracts of fecal water samples from the adenoma patients had a significantly higher capacity to induce cell proliferation than those from controls, and that this effect could be explained to a large extent by the concentrations of deoxycholic and chenodeoxycholic acids in the fecal water using regression models. No difference between patients and controls was observed for induction of AP-1 activity or induction of DNA strand breaks in intact cells. However, induction of DNA strand breaks in isolated DNA was significantly higher for the fecal waters from patients than for those from controls, which could be explained in part in a regression model by concentrations of lithocholic acid in fecal water and fecapentaene-12 in feces. Conclusions: Our results support the hypothesis that the biochemistry of fecal waters from adenoma patients and controls differs.
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