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Modifying Effects of Naturally Occurring Products on the Development of Colonic Aberrant Crypt Foci Induced by Azoxymethane in F344 Rats¹

First Department of Pathology, Gifu University School of Medicine, 40 Tsukasa-machi, Gifu City 500 [T. K., T. T., H. M.]; Department of Biochemistry, Gifu Pharmaceutical University, 5-6-1, Mitahora Higashi, Gifu City 502 [A. H.]; and Morishita Jintan Co. Ltd., 1-1-30 Tamatsukuri, Chuo-ku, Osaka City 540 [J. Y.], Japan

Modifying effects of dietary exposure of seven naturally occurring products on the development of colonic aberrant crypt foci (ACF) induced by azoxymethane (AOM) were investigated in male F344 rats. The effects of these compounds on proliferation biomarkers such as the number of silver-stained nucleolar organizer region protein, ornithine decarboxylase activity, and polyamine concentration in the colon were also estimated. The naturally occurring products tested included four terpenoids (rebaudioside A, oleanolic acid, costunolide, and soyasaponin A₂), one flavonoid (liquiritin), and two isocoumarins (phyllodulcin and hydrangenol). Animals were given 3 weekly s.c. injections of AOM (15 mg/kg body weight) to induce ACF. These rats were fed the diet containing 200 ppm of each test chemical for 5 weeks, starting 1 week before the first dosing of AOM. All rats were sacrificed 2 weeks after the last AOM injection to estimate their modulatory effects on the occurrence of ACF and the cell proliferation biomarkers in the colon. In groups of rats given AOM and hydrangenol, oleanolic acid, or costunolide, the frequencies of ACF/colon were significantly lower than that of AOM alone (P < 0.05, P < 0.005, and P < 0.05, respectively). In groups of rats given AOM and costunolide and those treated with AOM and soyasaponin A₂, both ornithine decarboxylase activity and polyamine concentration of the colonic mucosal tissue were significantly decreased compared with those in rats given AOM alone (P < 0.05 and P < 0.001 for costunolide and P < 0.001 and P < 0.05 for soyasaponin A₂, respectively). In groups of rats given AOM and liquiritin, oleanolic acid, or costunolide, the numbers of silver-stained nucleolar organizer regions/nucleus were significantly lower than that of AOM alone (P < 0.05, P < 0.01, and P < 0.05, respectively). Costunolide decreased four AOM-induced biomarkers, such as the frequencies of ACF/colon, ornithine decarboxylase activity, polyamine concentration level, and silver-stained nucleolar organizer region number in the colon. These results indicate that, among the test chemicals, costunolide has blocking effects against rat colon carcinogenesis and is a possible chemopreventive agent against colon tumorigenesis. Also, the short-term model described here could be a very useful prescreening tool for chemopreventive agents against colon cancer.

¹ This work was supported by a grant from the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Japan.

² To whom requests for reprints should be addressed.

Received 10/10/94. Accepted 1/18/95.

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