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Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab (October 7, 2008). doi:10.1152/ajpendo.90368.2008
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Submitted on April 15, 2008
Revised on September 28, 2008
Accepted on October 6, 2008

Mouse breast cancer model-dependent changes in metabolic syndrome-associated phenotypes caused by maternal dioxin exposure and dietary fat

Michele La Merrill1, David Baston2, Michael Denison2, Linda Birnbaum3, Daniel Pomp4, and David W Threadgill1*

1 University of North Carolina
2 University of California, Davis
3 US EPA
4 Carolina Center for Genome Sciences

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dwt{at}med.unc.edu.

Diets high in fat are associated with increased susceptibility to obesity and metabolic syndrome. Increased adipose tissue that is caused by high fat diets (HFD) results in altered storage of lipophilic toxicants like 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), which may further increase susceptibility to metabolic syndrome. Since both TCDD and HFD are associated with increased breast cancer risk, we examined their effects on metabolic syndrome-associated phenotypes in three mouse models of breast cancer: 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (DMBA), Tg(MMTV-Neu)202Mul/J (HER2) and TgN(MMTV-PyMT)634Mul/J (PyMT), all on an FVB/N genetic background. Pregnant mice dosed with 1 µg/kg of TCDD or vehicle on gestational day 12.5 were placed on HFD or low fat diet (LFD) at parturition. Body weights, percent body fat, and fasting blood glucose were measured longitudinally, and triglycerides were measured at study termination. On HFD, all cancer models reached the pubertal growth spurt ahead of FVB controls. Among mice fed HFD, the HER2 model had a greater increase in body weight and adipose tissue from puberty through adulthood compared to the PyMT and DMBA models. However, the DMBA model consistently had higher fasting blood glucose levels than the PyMT and HER2 models. TCDD only impacted serum triglycerides in the PyMT model maintained on HFD. Since the estrogenic activity of the HFD was three times lower than that of the LFD, differential dietary estrogenic activities did not drive the observed phenotypic differences. Rather, the HFD-dependent changes were cancer-model dependent. These results show that cancer models can have differential effects on metabolic-syndrome associated phenotypes even before cancers arise.







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