Greater Effectiveness of Hepatocyte and Liver S9 Preparations From Hamsters Than Rat Preparations in Activating N-Nitroso Compounds to Metabolites Mutagenic to Salmonella23
- 1 November 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
- Vol. 67 (5) , 1117-1122
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/67.5.1117
Abstract
A comparison was made of the ability of liver S9 and hepatocyte preparations from noninbred Syrian golden hamsters and noninbred Sprague-Dawley rats to metabolically activate a number of nitroso compounds in the Salmonella mutagenesis assay. The liver S9 and hepatocyte preparations from hamsters were consistently more effective than were preparations from rats in metabolizing nitrosodimethylamine (NDM), nitrosodiethylamine, nitrosodiallylamine, nitrosopyrrolidine (NP), nitrosomorpholine (NM), nitrosodiethylmethylurea (NDEMU), and nitrosodimethylethylurea (NDMEU) to mutagenic forms. The use of hamster S9 preparations with NP and NM resulted in up to 14 times the number of revertant colonies obtained with rat preparations; in the presence of hamster hepatocytes, up to 32 times the number of revertants were obtained. The S9 preparations from male hamsters not treated with the enzyme inducers phenobarbital and Aroclor 1254 were more effective than were those from female hamsters for activating NP, NM, and NDM. NDEMU and NDMEU, which have been reported to be carcinogens but not mutagens, were mutagenic in the presence of induced liver S9 or hepatocyte preparations from hamsters but not from rats. When tested with any of the S9 or hepatocyte preparations, nitrosodiphenylamine and nitrosomethylaniline, also reported to be carcinogens but not mutagens, gave no mutagenic responses. Nitrosodioctylamine, which has been reported to be noncarcinogenic, was also not mutagenic.Keywords
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