Abstract: |
In a previous study colonic hyperplasia and hyperproliferation were induced in mice and rats by a nutritional-stress diet, based on the AIN-76A semisynthetic diet modified to contain four suggested high-risk components of the human Western-style diet: increased fat and phosphate and decreased calcium and vitamin D contents. In this study the effect of raising calcium alone to near the median level (0.22 mg/kcal) and to a high level (1.3 mg/kcal), comparable to adult human dietary intake, was tested in mice and rats while retaining the three other high-risk components. With median calcium intake the nutritional-stress diet induced hyperproliferation of epithelial cells in colonic crypts, with increased numbers of proliferating cells in crypt columns in sigmoid colon of mice (P < 0.001) and rats (P = 0.02) and in the ascending colon of mice (P = 0.01). With high calcium intake, hyperproliferation was reduced almost to control amounts in the presence of unchanged fat, phosphate, and vitamin D. |
Keywords: |
controlled study; nonhuman; conference paper; energy intake; mouse; animal; mice; cell division; animal experiment; body weight; calcium; mice, inbred c57bl; animalia; diet; colon cancer; vitamin d; hyperplasia; rat; cell count; rats; phosphate; phosphates; colon; rats, inbred lew; fat; nutrition; fat intake; colonic diseases; dietary fats; female; priority journal; support, non-u.s. gov't; support, u.s. gov't, p.h.s.; calcium, dietary; colonichyperproliferation; sigmoidea
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