Lung endocrine-like cells in hamsters treated with diethylnitrosamine: alterations in vivo and in cell culture.

AUTOR(ES)

Linnoila, R I

RESUMO

Diethylnitrosamine is known to cause squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma of the lung in Syrian golden hamsters. Sections of lungs obtained from hamsters treated with the systemic carcinogen diethylnitrosamine showed a significant increase in the number of argyrophilic cells of neuroepithelial bodies. The hyperplastic response was retained at least 4 weeks after cessation of treatment. To examine whether these affected cells exhibited enhanced survival in vitro, lung cells were dissociated with Pronase and grown in culture. After 7 days, argyrophilia, dense-cored vesicles, and corticotropin-like immunoreactivity were observed in many of the cells derived from hamsters treated for 5 or 8 weeks. These findings suggest that the endocrine-like cells of neuroepithelial bodies are affected by diethylnitrosamine as evidenced by a numerical increase in vivo and by the properties exhibited by cells in vitro. The relationship of this diethylnitrosamine-induced reaction to bronchial carcinoid tumors or small-cell carcinoma of the lung remains to be established.

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