Human hepatocytes support the hypertrophic but not the hyperplastic response to the murine nongenotoxic hepatocarcinogen sodium phenobarbital in an in vivo study using a chimeric mouse with humanized liver [Rat Liver Experiments]

ABSTRACT: High doses of sodium phenobarbital (NaPB), a constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) activator, have been shown to produce hepatocellular tumors in rodents by a mitogenic mode of action (MOA) involving CAR activation. The effect of 1 week dietary treatment with NaPB on liver weight and histopathology, hepatic CYP2B enzyme activity and CYP2B/3A mRNA expression, replicative DNA synthesis and selected genes related to cell proliferation and functional transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses was studied in male CD-1 mice, Wistar Hannover (WH) rats and chimeric mice with human hepatocytes. The treatment of chimeric mice with 1000-1500 ppm NaPB resulted in plasma levels around 3-5 fold higher than those observed in human subjects given therapeutic doses of NaPB. NaPB produced dose-dependent incr

ORGANISM(S): Rattus rattus

SUBMITTER: Kayo Sumida 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-57057 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress