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Hong: The Morphologic Study of Vitamin A(Retinol) on 1, 2-Dimethylhydrazine Induced Colon Carcinogenesis in the Rats
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The Ewha Medical Journal 1989; 12(4): 241-251.

Published online: 24 July 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1989.12.4.241

The Morphologic Study of Vitamin A(Retinol) on 1, 2-Dimethylhydrazine Induced Colon Carcinogenesis in the Rats

Ki Sook Hong

Department of Pathology, Collee of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea.

Corresponding author: Ki Sook Hong. Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University

Copyright © 1989. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

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Abstract

Induction of intestinal tumor by subcutaneous injection of 1, 2-dimethylhydrazine(DMH), 20 mg/kg/week, during 20 weeks was studied in rats fed by vitamin A(retinol) 50 µg, 500 µg/day.
Mucosal epithelial cell hyperplasia and mitosis in one crypt was not significantly inhibited by vitamin A administration(P>0.05). In electron microscopic findings, the cytoplasmic vacuoles were decreased in DMH+vitamin A-treated rats than DMH only. Dysplasia of the colonic mucosa in DMH+vitamin A-treated group were more slowly developed than DMH-treated rats. In DMH-treated rats the tumors were early detected after 14 weeks, but in DMH+vitamin A-treated groups were seen after 20 weeks.
All these findings suggest that vitamin A can effectively prevent cytotoxicity of carcinogen in early phase, but can not prevent carcinogenesis in late phase.

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