| First Author | Takashima K | Year | 2008 |
| Journal | J Occup Health | Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 | Pages | 169-80 |
| PubMed ID | 18403868 | Mgi Jnum | J:138511 |
| Mgi Id | MGI:3805261 | Doi | 10.1539/joh.l7105 |
| Citation | Takashima K, et al. (2008) Different mechanisms of DEHP-induced hepatocellular adenoma tumorigenesis in wild-type and Ppar alpha-null mice. J Occup Health 50(2):169-80 |
| abstractText | Di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) exposure is thought to lead to hepatocellular hypertrophy and hyperplasia in rodents mediated via peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPAR alpha). A recent study revealed that long-term exposure to relatively low-dose DEHP (0.05%) caused liver tumors including hepatocellular carcinomas, hepatocellular adenomas, and chologiocellular carcinomas at a higher incidence in Ppar alpha-null mice (25.8%) than in wild-type mice (10.0%). Using tissues with hepatocellular adenoma, microarray (Affymetrix MOE430A) as well as, in part, real-time quantitative PCR analysis was conducted to elucidate the mechanisms of the adenoma formation resulting from DEHP exposure in both genotyped mice. The microarray profiles showed that the up- or down-regulated genes were quite different between hepatocellular adenoma tissues of wild-type and Ppar alpha-null mice exposed to DEHP. The gene expressions of apoptotic peptidase activating factor 1 (Apaf1) and DNA-damage-inducible 45 alpha (Gadd45a) were increased in the hepatocellular adenoma tissues of wild-type mice exposed to DEHP, whereas they were unchanged in corresponding tissues of Ppar alpha-null mice. On the other hand, the expressions of cyclin B2 and myeloid cell leukemia sequence 1 were increased only in the hepatocellular adenoma tissues of Ppar alpha-null mice. Taken together, DEHP may induce hepatocellular adenomas, in part, via suppression of G2/M arrest regulated by Gadd45a and caspase 3-dependent apoptosis in Ppar alpha-null mice, but these genes may not be involved in tumorigenesis in the wild-type mice. In contrast, the expression level of Met was notably increased in the liver adenoma tissue of wild-type mice, which may suggest the involvement of Met in DEHP-induced tumorigenesis in wild-type mice. |
