Korean J Anat.
1999 Feb;32(1):95-104.
Autoradiographic Study on the Effect of AG60 to the DNA Synthesis of Gastric Epithelium of Mouse Inoculated with Ehrlich Carcinoma
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- 1Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Soonchunhyang University, Chunan, Korea.
- 2Tae Rim Institute of Life Sciences, Seoul, Korea.
- 3College of Pharmacy, Duksung Women's University, Seoul, Korea.
- 4Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Kon-Kuk University, Seoul, Korea.
- 5Department of Laboratory Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine Chung-Buk National University, Cheongju, Korea.
Abstract
- To study the tumor-suppression effect of a newly developed anti-tumor agent AG60 [acriflavine (1) : guanosine (1) composition, Taerim Pharm. Co., Seoul, Korea], each Ehrlich carcinoma (10(7) cells)-inoculated mouse received the subcutaneous injection of 0.2 ml of saline, 5 mg/kg of AG60, and 30 mg/kg of AG60 per day for a week. The day following the last injection, each mouse was injected with a single dose of 0.7 microcurie/g of methyl-3H-thymidine (25Ci/mmol, Amersham Lab., England) through tail vein. Seventy minutes after the thymidine injection, animals were sacrificed, and gastric tissues were collected and fixed in 10% neutral formalin. Tissue blocks were washed, dehydrated, embedded and cut in 6 micrometer-thick sections. Deparaffinized sections were coated with autoradiographic emulsion EM 1 (Amersham Lab. England) in a dark room and dried and were placed in a light-tight box. The sections were exposured for 5 weeks in the dark room, and were then developed in D-19 developer. Labeled indices (mean number of labeled cells per 100 epithelial cells in the isthmus) were observed and calculated. The results are as follows; 1. On histological study, gastric mucosa had no morphological changes following the injection of AG60. 2. On autoradiographic study, labeled grains of 3H-thymidine were restricted on the isthmus portion of the gatric gland. 3. On autoradiographic study, labeling indicies of gastric epithelial cells of normal control, experimental control, AG60 (5 mg/kg)-treated and AG60 (30 mg/kg)-treated groups were 21.9+/-0.28%, 18.8+/-0.03%, 21.6+/-1.61% and 6.3+/-0.93%, respectively. These result suggest that AG60 is expected as one of most effective anticancer drugs, and the dosage under 5 mg/kg of AG60 does not result any defect on the DNA synthesis in gastric epithelial cells.
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