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Table 5 (contd)<br />

Species Treatment Incidence and ype<br />

of tumours<br />

Male<br />

Wistar<br />

rats<br />

10 mg/kg bw<br />

AAI given<br />

daily by<br />

gavage to<br />

8-week-old<br />

rats, 5 times a<br />

week for<br />

3 months. Rats<br />

were killed<br />

over a 15-week<br />

period after<br />

treatment<br />

SCC of the forestomach<br />

and<br />

pancreas<br />

Method of analysis No. of mutated<br />

genes/no. of<br />

tumours<br />

analysed<br />

DNA extracted from histologically normal<br />

and neoplastic tissue in paraffin sections,<br />

c-Ha-ras fragments around codon 61<br />

amplified by PCR and analysed by<br />

oligonucleotide hybridization with probes<br />

carrying different c-Ha-ras base-pair<br />

substitutions<br />

2/2 forestomach<br />

tumours<br />

0/1 pancreas<br />

tumour<br />

Details of mutations<br />

SCC, squamous-cell carcinoma; PCR, polymerase chain reaction; AA, aristolochic acid; AAI, aristolochic acid I; AAII, aristolochic acid II<br />

Gene, codon Base change Reference<br />

c-Ha-ras, 61 CAA → CTA (2/3) Schmeiser<br />

et al. (1991)<br />

104<br />

<strong>IARC</strong> <strong>M<strong>ON</strong>OGRAPHS</strong> VOLUME 82

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