RGD Reference Report - Uterine Carcinomas in Tetrabromobisphenol A-exposed Wistar Han Rats Harbor Increased Tp53 Mutations and Mimic High-grade Type I Endometrial Carcinomas in Women. - Rat Genome Database

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Uterine Carcinomas in Tetrabromobisphenol A-exposed Wistar Han Rats Harbor Increased Tp53 Mutations and Mimic High-grade Type I Endometrial Carcinomas in Women.

Authors: Harvey, JB  Osborne, TS  Hong, HH  Bhusari, S  Ton, TV  Pandiri, AR  Masinde, T  Dunnick, J  Peddada, S  Elmore, S  Hoenerhoff, MJ 
Citation: Harvey JB, etal., Toxicol Pathol. 2015 Dec;43(8):1103-13. doi: 10.1177/0192623315599256. Epub 2015 Sep 8.
RGD ID: 11075084
Pubmed: PMID:26353976   (View Abstract at PubMed)
PMCID: PMC4670270   (View Article at PubMed Central)
DOI: DOI:10.1177/0192623315599256   (Journal Full-text)

Endometrial carcinoma is the most common gynecologic malignancy is the United States and accounts for 6% of all cancers in women. The disease is classified as type I or type II based on clinicopathologic and molecular features. It is a multifactorial disease with a number of risk factors, including environmental exposures. How environmental exposures, such as flame retardants, may affect the incidence of endometrial cancer is a topic of current and ongoing interest. Tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA) is a widely used brominated flame retardant found in a variety of household products. A recent 2-year National Toxicology Program carcinogenicity study found that exposure to TBBPA was associated with a marked increase in the development of uterine tumors, specifically uterine carcinomas, in Wistar Han rats. Molecularly, TBBPA-induced uterine carcinomas in Wistar Han rats were characterized by a marked increase in tumor protein 53 mutation compared to spontaneous uterine carcinomas, as well as overexpression of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2. Similar to spontaneous carcinomas, tumors in TBBPA-exposed rats were estrogen receptor-alpha positive and progesterone receptor negative by immunohistochemistry. The morphologic and molecular features of uterine carcinomas in TBBPA-exposed rats resemble those of high-grade type I tumors in women, and these data suggest that exposure to TBBPA may pose an increased cancer risk.

RGD Manual Disease Annotations    Click to see Annotation Detail View
TermQualifierEvidenceWithReferenceNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
endometrial carcinoma  ISOTp53 (Rattus norvegicus)11075084; 11075084DNA:mutations: :RGD 
endometrial carcinoma  IMP 11075084DNA:mutations: :RGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Tp53  (tumor protein p53)

Genes (Mus musculus)
Trp53  (transformation related protein 53)

Genes (Homo sapiens)
TP53  (tumor protein p53)


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