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The number of nucleolar organizer regions (NORs) stained by the one-step silver colloid method was measured in preneoplastic and neoplastic bladder lesions induced by N-butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl)nitrosamine (BBN) in rats. Male ACI/N rats, 6 weeks of age, were given 0.05% BBN in drinking water for 5, 8, 12, 18 and 30 weeks to induce preneoplastic and neoplastic transitional cell lesions. The mean numbers of silverstained NORs (AgNORs) in such lesions were as follows: untreated transitional epithelium (n = 6), 1.26 ±0.09; transitional cell epithelium outside focal lesions (n= 10), 1.75 ±0.10; simple hyperplasia (n= 10), 2.01 ±0.15; papillary or nodular (PN) hyperplasia (n= 10), 2.15±0.19; transitional cell papilloma (n= 5), 2.37 ±0.12; transitional cell carcinoma (n= 5), 3.52 ±0.23. Thus, the mean number of AgNORs showed a step-wise increase from untreated and treated, histologically normal transitional epithelium through simple hyperplasia and PN hyperplasia to transitional cell papilloma and carcinoma. These results suggest that the mean number of AgNORs may reflect the proliferative nature of bladder lesions induced by BBN, as reported in preneoplastic and neoplastic lesions in other organs. PN hyperplasias were classified into two types based upon the mean number of AgNORs, indicating that they include reversible and irreversible changes in contrast with simple hyperplasia which is reversible change.
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Takeuchi, T., Tanaka, T., Ohno, T. et al. Nucleolar organizer regions in rat urinary bladder tumors induced by N-butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl)nitrosamine. Virchows Archiv B Cell Pathol 58, 383–387 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02890096
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