Carcinogenesis, Teratogenesis & Mutagenesis ›› 2007, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (1): 40-043.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-616x.2007.01.012

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Malignant Transformation of the Human Embryo Lung Diploid Cell Induced by Siritch Oil Fume Aggregates

LIU Xiu-fang1,LI Li-ping1,HU Shang-ping2 GUO Feng-ying2,   

  1. 1.Department. of Environmental Health and Toxicology, School of Public Health;2.Department of Pathology, Basic Medical Science,Ningxia Medical College, Yinchuan 750004, Ningxia China
  • Received:2006-03-02 Revised:2006-05-29 Online:2007-01-30 Published:2007-01-30

Abstract: BACKGROUND & AIM: To study the potential carcinogenic risk of siritch oil fume condensate (SOFC) to human. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Different concentrations of SOFC were co-incubated with human embryo lung diploid cells. The degree of malignant transformation was observed by assessing the biological characteristics of the cells. RESULTS: The concentration of SOFC within the dose range of the experiment(25~400 μg/ml) could induce malignant transformation of the human embryo lung diploid cell, and with an obvious dose-response relationship. Transformed cells exhibited many characteristics associated with malignant transformation, such as losing contact-dependent inhibition, saturated density angmentation, growing at low serum concentration, agglutinating by different concentrations of ConA, losing anchorage dependence, forming tumor at inoculation site of athymic mouse. CONCLUSION: SOFC could induce human embryo lung diploid cell malignant transformation and showed potential carcinogenicity to human.

Key words: siritch oil fume condensates, human embryo lung cell, malignant transformation, athymic mouse

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