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ToxSci Advance Access published online on May 18, 2005
Toxicological Sciences, doi:10.1093/toxsci/kfi206
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Received March 21, 2005
Accepted May 11, 2005

Carcinogenicity

Pronounced synergistic promotion of N-bis(2-hydroxypropyl)nitrosamine-initiated thyroid tumorigenesis in rats treated with excess soybean and iodine deficient diets

Akiyoshi Nishikawa 1*, Takako Ikeda 2, Hwa-Young Son 1, Kazushi Okazaki 1, Takayoshi Imazawa 1, Takashi Umemura 1, Shuichi Kimura 3, and Masao Hirose 1

1 Division of Pathology, National Institute of Health Sciences, 1-18-1 Kamiyoga, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-8501, Japan
2 Division of Pathology, National Institute of Health Sciences, 1-18-1 Kamiyoga, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-8501, Japan; Showa Women's University, 1-7 Taishido, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 154-8533, Japan
3 Showa Women's University, 1-7 Taishido, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 154-8533, Japan

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Akiyoshi Nishikawa, E-mail: nishikaw{at}nihs.go.jp


  Abstract

We have reported that excess soybean treatment and iodine deficiency synergistically interact, resulting in remarkable induction of thyroid hyperplasias in rats (Carcinogenesis 21: 707-713, 2000). In the present study, modifying effects of excess soybean and iodine deficient diets were investigated in the post-initiation phase of N-bis(2-hydroxypropyl)nitrosamine [DHPN] -initiated thyroid tumorigenesis in rats. AIN-93G in which casein was replaced with gluten was used as a basal diet in order to avoid possible iodine contamination. In Experiment 1, F344 rats of both sexes were sc injected with DHPN at a dose of 2,800 mg/kg body weight and then fed a diet containing 0%, 0.8%, 4% or 20% defatted soybean for 12 weeks, with proportional replacement of gluten by soybean flour. While no thyroid proliferative lesions were found in any group, the absolute thyroid weights were significantly (P<0.01) elevated with the 20% soybean treatment. In Experiment 2, after similar sc injection of DHPN, rats were fed a basal diet or a diet containing 20% soybean under iodine normal or deficient conditions for 12 weeks. Soybean feeding to both sexes under iodine deficient but not normal conditions dramatically enhanced the development of thyroid follicular adenomas (P<0.01) and adenocarcinomas (P<0.05), in good agreement with decrease in thyroxine and increase in thyroid-stimulating hormone. Thus co-exposure to excess soybean and iodine deficiency results in synergistic promotion of DHPN-initiated thyroid tumorigenesis in rats, of which mechanisms appear to primarily involve effects on serum hormone levels.

Keywords: Soybean; Iodine deficiency; Thyroid tumor-promotion; Synergism.
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