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Veterinary Pathology, Vol 18, Issue 1 82-91, Copyright © 1981 by American College of Veterinary Pathologists

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The influence of dietary fat and non-specific immunotherapy on carcinogen-induced rat mammary adenocarcinoma

G. M. Kollmorgen, M. M. King, J. F. Roszel, B. J. Daggs and R. E. Longley

The incidence of mammary adenocarcinoma in Sprague-Dawley female rats, caused by the carcinogen 7,12-dimethylbenz(alpha)anthracene, was influenced by the level of dietary fat fed after exposure to carcinogen. Carcinogen was given by stomach tube to 50-day-old rats, and tumors were evaluated when rats were 9 months old. Rats on diets containing 20% unsaturated fat had a tumor incidence of 97%, while rats changed to a low-fat diet (2% unsaturated fat) three or four weeks after exposure to the carcinogen had an incidence of 45%. Some rats on each diet were given two treatments with the methanol extraction residue of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin, either three and five weeks after carcinogen or four and six weeks after carcinogen. Tumor incidence in the treated group and the untreated group was the same when rats were maintained on the high-fat diet, but tumors in the treated group were larger and the disease was more severe by histological criteria. These tumors were more anaplastic and many were extensively infiltrated with lymphocytes compared to the untreated group. Tumor incidence was significantly lower in rats changed to the low-fat diet (45%) than in those on the high-fat diet (97%), and tumor incidence was reduced to 20% when rats changed to the low-fat diet were treated with methanol extraction residue. The treated group had less severe disease than the untreated group on the low-fat diet. Only half the tumor-bearing rats in this group had malignant tumors, and none were invasive. Methanol extraction residue protected most rats on the low-fat diet against mammary adenocarcinoma, and reduced the severity of disease in those rats that did develop tumors. Methanol extraction residue treatment provided no protection, and even increased the severity of disease, in rats on the high-fat diet.


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