Mutagenic, transforming and promoting effect of pickled vegetables from Linxian county, China

A recent epidemiological survey in China showed that there is a regional distribution of esophageal cancer and a correlation between mortality for this cancer and environmental factors, especially the consumption of pickled vegetables. A series of experimental studies with pickled vegetable extract...

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Published in:Carcinogenesis (New York) 1980-08, Vol.1 (8), p.685-692
Main Authors: Cheng, S.-J., Sala, M., Li, M.H., Wang, M.-Y., Pot-Deprun, J., Chouroulinkov, I.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Cell Transformation, Neoplastic - chemically induced
Cells, Cultured - drug effects
China - epidemiology
Cricetinae
Cricetulus
Drug Resistance
Esophageal Neoplasms - chemically induced
Esophageal Neoplasms - epidemiology
Fibroblasts - drug effects
Food Preservation - methods
Food Preservatives - adverse effects
Male
Mesocricetus
Methylnitronitrosoguanidine - pharmacology
Mice
Mice, Inbred C3H
Mutagenesis
Mutagenicity Tests
Rats
Rats, Wistar - metabolism
Sister Chromatid Exchange - drug effects
Spices - adverse effects
Thioguanine - pharmacology
Vegetables - adverse effects
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Summary:A recent epidemiological survey in China showed that there is a regional distribution of esophageal cancer and a correlation between mortality for this cancer and environmental factors, especially the consumption of pickled vegetables. A series of experimental studies with pickled vegetable extract were done using different in vitro biological systems. The results showed that pickled vegetable extract induced 6-thioguanine-resistant mutants in V79 cells and increased sister chromatid exchanges in the same cells and in Syrian hamster embryo cells. Pickled vegetables extract induced transformed foci in Syrian hamster embryo cells and in 3-methylcholanthrene initiated C3H/10T1/2 cells. The mutagenic, transforming and promoting activities of pickled vegetable extract seen in vitro conform with in vivo results and provide evidence for the presence of a mutagen and/or a carcinogen in pickled vegetable extract. A possible role of pickled vegetables consumption in the etiology of esophageal cancer is discussed.
ISSN:0143-3334
1460-2180
DOI:10.1093/carcin/1.8.685