| Arsenic exposure in utero exacerbates skin cancer response in adulthood with contemporaneous distortion of tumor stem cell dynamics. | |
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PMID: 18922899 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Arsenic is a carcinogen with transplacental activity that can affect human skin stem cell population dynamics in vitro by blocking exit into differentiation pathways. Keratinocyte stem cells (KSC) are probably a key target in skin carcinogenesis. Thus, we tested the effects of fetal arsenic exposure in Tg.AC mice, a strain sensitive to skin carcinogenesis via activation of the v-Ha-ras transgene likely in KSCs. After fetal arsenic treatment, offspring received topical 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate (TPA) through adulthood. Arsenic alone had no effect, whereas TPA alone induced papillomas and squamous cell carcinomas (SCC). However, fetal arsenic treatment before TPA increased SCC multiplicity 3-fold more than TPA alone, and these SCCs were much more aggressive (invasive, etc.). Tumor v-Ha-ras levels were 3-fold higher with arsenic plus TPA than TPA alone, and v-Ha-ras was overexpressed early on in arsenic-treated fetal skin. CD34, considered a marker for both KSCs and skin cancer stem cells, and Rac1, a key gene stimulating KSC self-renewal, were greatly increased in tumors produced by arsenic plus TPA exposure versus TPA alone, and both were elevated in arsenic-treated fetal skin. Greatly increased numbers of CD34-positive probable cancer stem cells and marked overexpression of RAC1 protein occurred in tumors induced by arsenic plus TPA compared with TPA alone. Thus, fetal arsenic exposure, although by itself oncogenically inactive in skin, facilitated cancer response in association with distorted skin tumor stem cell signaling and population dynamics, implicating stem cells as a target of arsenic in the fetal basis of skin cancer in adulthood. |
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Authors:
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Michael P Waalkes; Jie Liu; Dori R Germolec; Carol S Trempus; Ronald E Cannon; Erik J Tokar; Raymond W Tennant; Jerrold M Ward; Bhalchandra A Diwan |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Cancer research Volume: 68 ISSN: 1538-7445 ISO Abbreviation: Cancer Res. Publication Date: 2008 Oct |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2008-10-16 Completed Date: 2008-11-07 Revised Date: 2013-06-05 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 2984705R Medline TA: Cancer Res Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 8278-85 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Inorganic Carcinogenesis Section, Laboratory of Comparative Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute at NIEHS, North Carolina27709, USA. waalkes@niehs.nih.gov |
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Animals Antigens, CD34 / analysis, genetics Arsenic / toxicity* Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / chemically induced, genetics Female Fetus / drug effects* Genes, ras Mice Neoplastic Stem Cells / drug effects* Neuropeptides / analysis, genetics Pregnancy Proteins Skin Neoplasms / chemically induced*, genetics Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / toxicity rac GTP-Binding Proteins / analysis, genetics |
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ID/Acronym/Agency:
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N01-CO-12400/CO/NCI NIH HHS; Z01 BC005488-22/BC/NCI NIH HHS |
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Reg. No./Substance:
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0/Antigens, CD34; 0/Neuropeptides; 0/Proteins; 0/Rac1 protein, mouse; 0/Shfdg1 protein, mouse; 16561-29-8/Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate; 7440-38-2/Arsenic; EC 3.6.5.2/rac GTP-Binding Proteins |
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