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Chronic ethanol feeding promotes azoxymethane and dextran sulfate sodium-induced colonic tumorigenesis potentially by enhancing mucosal inflammation

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Cancer, March 2016
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Title
Chronic ethanol feeding promotes azoxymethane and dextran sulfate sodium-induced colonic tumorigenesis potentially by enhancing mucosal inflammation
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BMC Cancer, March 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12885-016-2180-x
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Pradeep K. Shukla, Kamaljit K. Chaudhry, Hina Mir, Ruchika Gangwar, Nikki Yadav, Bhargavi Manda, Avtar S. Meena, RadhaKrishna Rao

Abstract

Alcohol consumption is one of the major risk factors for colorectal cancer. However, the mechanism involved in this effect of alcohol is unknown. We evaluated the effect of chronic ethanol feeding on azoxymethane and dextran sulfate sodium (AOM/DSS)-induced carcinogenesis in mouse colon. Inflammation in colonic mucosa was assessed at a precancerous stage by evaluating mucosal infiltration of neutrophils and macrophages, and analysis of cytokine and chemokine gene expression. Chronic ethanol feeding significantly increased the number and size of polyps in colon of AOM/DSS treated mice. Confocal microscopic and immunoblot analyses showed a significant elevation of phospho-Smad, VEGF and HIF1α in the colonic mucosa. RT-PCR analysis at a precancerous stage indicated that ethanol significantly increases the expression of cytokines IL-1α, IL-6 and TNFα, and the chemokines CCL5/RANTES, CXCL9/MIG and CXCL10/IP-10 in the colonic mucosa of AOM/DSS treated mice. Confocal microscopy showed that ethanol feeding induces a dramatic elevation of myeloperoxidase, Gr1 and CD68-positive cells in the colonic mucosa of AOM/DSS-treated mice. Ethanol feeding enhanced AOM/DSS-induced suppression of tight junction protein expression and elevated cell proliferation marker, Ki-67 in the colonic epithelium. This study demonstrates that chronic ethanol feeding promotes colonic tumorigenesis potentially by enhancing inflammation and elevation of proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines.

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Unknown 46 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 9 20%
Researcher 8 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 7%
Student > Master 3 7%
Other 5 11%
Unknown 14 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 24%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 20%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 4%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 4%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 18 39%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 March 2016.
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#14,840,844
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#3,674
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#167,843
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#74
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