Effects of Black Raspberry diet on N-Nitrosomethylbenzylamine-altered gene expression in Rat Esophagus
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ABSTRACT: Our recent study (Reen et al., Cancer Res 2007;67:6484-92) identified 2261 dysregulated genes in the esophagi of rats that received a one week exposure to the carcinogen, N-Nitrosomethylbenzylamine (NMBA). We further reported that 1323 of these genes were positively modulated in the esophagus of NMBA-treated animals that also consumed dietary phenethyl isothiocyanate (PEITC), a constituent of cruciferous vegetables. Herein, we report our companion study wherein litter mate rats either received regular chow or chow with 5% freeze-dried black raspberries (BRB) for three weeks. During the third week one-half of these animals received three subcutaneous injections of NMBA (0.5 mg/kg body weight). All animals were sacrificed 24h after the last dose of NMBA, and their esophagi excised and processed for histological grading and RNA microarray profiling. Two hundred and fifty nine of the 2261 genes that were dysregulated by NMBA-alone were expressed at control levels in the esophagus of BRB-fed rats. Overall, the data indicate that a BRB diet has a genome-wide modulating effect on NMBA-caused dysregulation of gene expression in rat esophagus, including genes involved in phase I and phase II metabolism, oxidative damage, inflammation, differentiation, chromosome partitioning, cell adhesion, motility and cytoskeleton formation, and genes known to act as oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes regulating apoptosis, cell-cycling and proliferation, and angiogenesis. Keywords: Toxicogenomics, reference design.
ORGANISM(S): Rattus norvegicus
PROVIDER: GSE10623 | GEO | 2009/02/23
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA107685
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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