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Inheritance of Resistance to Promotion of Preneoplastic Liver Lesions in Copenhagen Rats

Geoffrey A. Wood^*, Dittakavi S.R. Sarma and Michael C. Archer^*,,1

^* Departments of Medical Biophysics,
Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, and
Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 3E2

Previously, we have shown that Copenhagen (Cop) rats are highly resistant to the induction of putative preneoplastic, glutathione S-transferase 7-7- (GST 7-7) positive liver lesions following treatment with a modified resistant hepatocyte (RH) protocol. The objective of this study was to determine if resistance is inherited in a dominant or recessive manner and to derive an estimate of the number of genetic loci involved. We crossed male and female Cop rats with F344 rats to produce F1 offspring. Backcross rats were generated using female F1 rats and either Cop or F344 males, resulting in B1c and B1f generations, respectively. The male rats from all these crosses were initiated with diethylnitrosamine (200 mg/kg) at 7 to 8 weeks of age and were promoted 3 weeks later with the RH protocol (2-acetylaminofluorene and a two-thirds partial hepatectomy). The rats were sacrificed 3 weeks after the partial hepatectomy and their livers were sectioned and stained for GST 7-7-positive lesions. The susceptibility of F1 rats was in between Cop and F344 rats, having 21.7% ± 2.0% (mean ± SEM) of their liver volume occupied by lesions versus 4.2% ± 0.8% for Cop and 53.0% ± 5.8% for F344 rats. As expected, B1c rats had a volume of liver occupied by lesions that was in between the F1 and Cop rats at 13.5% ± 1.6%. Surprisingly, B1f rats were similar to B1c rats in their resistance (9.1% ± 2.1%). These results point to a complex, polygenic inheritance pattern that can be explained by a minimum of four loci, one of which shows recessive epistasis.

Key Words: hepatocarcinogenesis • Copenhagen rat • inheritance of resistance

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