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Promoting Effect of Saccharin and DL-Tryptophan in Urinary Bladder Carcinogenesis¹

Department of Pathology, St. Vincent Hospital, and Department of Pathology, the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01604

The existence of at least two stages in bladder carcinogenesis was evaluated in male Fischer rats using N-[4-(5-nitro-2-furyl)-2-thiazolyl]formamide (FANFT) fed for six weeks at a level of 0.2% of the diet as the initiator. Sodium saccharin and DL-tryptophan were fed at levels of 5 and 2% of the diet, respectively, as possible promoting chemicals, and they were fed either immediately after FANFT administration or after six weeks of FANFT plus six weeks of control diet. All surviving rats were killed at the end of two years. Both chemicals significantly increased the incidence of bladder tumors following FANFT feeding compared to six weeks of FANFT feeding followed by control diet, and the results were similar whether saccharin or tryptophan feeding was started immediately after FANFT feeding was concluded or after a six-week delay. Saccharin was considerably more potent as a promoting agent than was tryptophan, inducing higher incidences of bladder tumors and having a shorter latent period. Long-term administration of FANFT induced a 100% incidence of bladder cancer. Sequential epithelial changes were observed by scanning and transmission electron microscopy as well as by light microscopy. Pleomorphic microvilli were present on the superficial cells of all tumors examined and on the surface cells of hyperplastic bladder epithelium after six weeks of FANFT plus six weeks of saccharin, but not after six weeks of FANFT and six weeks of control diet. Rats fed only saccharin, tryptophan, or control diet did not have bladder tumors or pleomorphic microvilli on bladder epithelium. These data suggest that saccharin and tryptophan might act as tumor-promoting agents during bladder carcinogenesis.

¹ Supported in part by USPHS Grant CA15495 from the National Cancer Institute through the National Bladder Cancer Project. A preliminary report of this work was presented (19).

² To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Department of Pathology, St. Vincent Hospital, Worcester, Mass. 01604.

³ Present address: First Department of Pathology, Nagoya City University Medical School, Nagoya 467, Japan.

Received 10/ 5/78. Accepted 12/22/78.

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