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Morphological and Biochemical Status of the Mammary Gland as Influenced by Conjugated Linoleic Acid: Implication for a Reduction in Mammary Cancer Risk¹

Division of Laboratory Research, AMC Cancer Research Center, Denver, Colorado 80214 [H. T., Z. Z.]; Dipartimento di Biologia Sperimentale, Sezione di Patologia Sperimentale, Universita'degli Studi di Cagliari, 09124 Cagliari, Italy [S. B.]; and Department of Experimental Therapeutics, Grace Cancer Drug Center [K. D.], and Department of Surgical Oncology [T. L., C. I.], Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263

Previous research showed that treatment with conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) during the period of active mammary gland morphogenesis was sufficient to confer a lasting protection against subsequent mammary tumorigenesis induced by methylnitrosourea. The present study was designed to characterize certain morphological and biochemical changes of the mammary gland that might potentially render it less susceptible to cancer induction. Female Sprague Dawley rats were fed a 1% CLA diet from weaning until about 50 days of age. The mammary gland parameters under investigation included (a) the deposition of neutral lipid, (b) the identification and quantification of CLA and its metabolites, (c) the density of the epithelium, and (d) the proliferative activity of various structural components. Our results showed that CLA treatment did not affect total fat deposition in the mammary tissue nor the extent of epithelial invasion into the surrounding fat pad but was able to cause a 20% reduction in the density of the ductal-lobular tree as determined by digitized image analysis of the whole mounts. This was accompanied by a suppression of bromodeoxyuridine labeling in the terminal end buds and lobuloalveolar buds. The recovery of desaturation and elongation products of CLA in the mammary gland confirmed our prior suggestion that the metabolism of CLA might be critical to risk modulation. The significance of the above findings was investigated in a mammary carcinogenesis bioassay with the use of the dimethylbenz[a]anthracene model. When CLA was started at weaning and continued for 6 months until the end of the experiment, this schedule of supplementation produced essentially the same magnitude of mammary tumor inhibition in the dimethylbenz[a]anthracene model as that produced by 1 month of CLA feeding from weaning. The observation is consistent with the hypothesis that exposure to CLA during the time of mammary gland maturation may modify the developmental potential of a subset of target cells that are normally susceptible to carcinogen-induced transformation.

¹ This work was supported by National Cancer Institute Grant CA 61763 (to C. I.) and Department of the Army Grant DAMD 17-94-J-A274 (to H. T.).

² To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Department of Surgical Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm & Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263.

Received 5/30/97. Accepted 9/19/97.

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