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- Homburger, F., Bioresearch Consultants
- Homburger, F., Boston Univ
- Russfield, A.B., S.T. Vincent Hospital, M.A.
- Bernfeld, P., Bioresearch Consultants
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Strain Differences in the Response of Inbred Syrian Hamsters to Cigarette Smoke
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SUMMARY-Mate hamsters, 102 from each of 2 inbred
hamster lines. were exposed to cigarette smoke twice a
day. S days/week for up to 100 weeks, in a modified Walton
reversrsnwking machine. Sixty shartt-sntoked and 60
ca4e-heid controls were used for each strain. Smoke
exposure for up to 100 we.ks had no eMect on mortality in
either strain, but reduced body wiOht Carbo:yhetrw-
globin levels increased markedly imntediataly after each
smoke exposure but returned to baseline levels in less than
24 hours. Serum trialyceride levels and virus profiles of
unoke-e.posed animals were unchanged. Chronic smoke
exposure increased relative we.i9ht of the Iun's and heart
in both strains, but to differsnt degrees. Over 90% of the
smoke-exposed animals of both strains showed hyper-
plastic or eeoplastic changes in the larynx. However,
nricroinvasive cancer was nearly S times more frequent in
I strain than in the other. In the inbred line more suscep-
tible to laryngeal hyperplasia, 2 animals developed naso-
pharyn9eai tumors, one of which was malignant. Smoke
exposure induced rare benign squamous papillontas in;he
air passages of both strains. The strain less susceptible te
laryngeal hyperpiasla exhibited more pulmonary adenoma-
tesls, but its incidence was not significantly affected by
smoke exposure. Clumping of pulmonary macrophages was
proof that smoke had reached the lungs; 1 strain was more
osceptible to this phenomenon than the other. In neither
rain did smoke exposure affect the incidenee of tumors
driaino outside the respiratory tract or the degenerative
changes characleristlc of aging hamsters.-J Natl Cancer
Inst 63: 1141-1157, 1974.
A`IODEL SYSTEM for studying the effects of
chronic inhalation of cigarette srnoke was developed
by Dontenwill and co-workers using randombred
Syrian golden hamsters (1). This paper reports the
effects of genetic differences between 2 lines of inbred
Syrian hamsters in a related model system.
The most appropriate methods for studying bio-
logic effects of tobacco smoke in experimental animals
are necessarily those based on chronic inhalation
simulating conditions in the human sasoker. One
main pnnciple of toxicologic experimentation in
animals is the use of dose levels many times higher
than those safely tolerated by human subjects. With
tobacco smoke, it is difficult to do this, since smoke
contains not only substances of posaibie chronic
toxicity but also compounds of known acute toxicity,
such as nicotine, carbon monoxide, and others which
sharply reduce the tolerated dose IeveL (2). Ham-
sters are desirable test subjects for tobaoro-smoke
inhalation studies, since they have a much greater
resistance to toxic effects of nicotine than do rats or
mice (3). We used inbred hamsters in order to im-
prove reproducibiliry of resulu and to detect poasible
strain-related diAetences in response to tobacco
smoke.
MATLRIALS AND METHODS
./nimolr.-BIO hamsters were purchased from
Trenton E!cperimental Laboratory Animal Co., Bar
Harbor, \faine. Five strains, the inbred BIO 2.4,
BIO 87.20, BIO 82.62, and BIO 15.16 lines, and the
RB (randombred) line, were used in preliminary
acute toxicity studies (to be reported elsewhere).
From these studies, the BIO 87.20 and BIO 15.16
strains were selected for chronic toxicity experi-
ments. All animals weighed 108*4 g at the beginning
of the chronic toxicity studies.
Only males were used, since male hamsters are
less belligerent than females and can therefore be
housed several per cage. In the present study, ham-
sters were housed in groups of 6 in 12X 14X6.S-inch
polypropylene boxes covered with well-fitting, wire-
screen lids. San-l-Cel, Deodor grade (Paxton Proc-
essing Inc., Paxtou, Ill.), was used as bedding material.
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It was changed once a week, at which time the cages
were washed in 180° F water and detergent in d
commercial cage-washing machine. The animal room
was continuously ventilated (32.2 exchanges/hr).
Temperature was kept between 72° and 76° F.
Fluorescent bulbs, the only light source, were auto-
matically controlled to operate between 7:00 a.m.
and 7:00 p.m.
No other animals were kept in the room housing
the hamsters, and no smoke was generated within
this room. The animals received Wayne Mouse
Breeder Blox and fresh tap water ad libitum. Twice
a day, S days/week, hamsters were transferred to a
nearby laboratory for exposure to smoke. '
Cennotron of «lmrttr nnoks-Modified Walton
reverse-smoking etaeltina wen used (3) aad are
described and illustrated elsewhere (4). In these
machines, air is pushed through lighted cigarettes by
application of positive prtssure at the burning end.
This contrasts with the conventional smoking machine
or the human smoker, since both suck air through
the cigarette by application of negative pressure at
the mouth end.
All animals wore well-5tting, permanently attached,
felt rings around their necks (yis of an inch thick, 2
inches outside diameter, and yC-y, of an inch inside
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diameter, depending on the size of the hamster). The
felt rings were reinforced on both sides by thin, ring-
shaped aluminum plates of slightly smaller dimen-
sions (1 % inches outside diameter and '!;, of an inch
inside diameter). The heads of the animals were in-
serted into the smoking machine by means of these
collars, so that only the heads were in contact with
the smoke. Because the bodies remained outside the
machine and were firmly restrained by the collars,
the need to confine the animals in tubes, with attend-
ant excessive sweating and stress, was eliminated.
Six animals were exposed simultaneously to smoke
inhalation.
Since the felt collars prevented the animals from
grooming their eyes, these were washed with penicillin
solution on a cotton swab daily 5 days.iweek.
Smoke F enerated from 4 1 R 1 Kentucky reference
cigarettes burning simultaneously was administered
to the animals in 60-second puff cycles. Each cycle
consisted of 2 seconds of smoke generation followed
by 15 seconds of additional smoke exposure and 43
seconds of exposure to fresh air to minimize the toxic
effects of carbon monoxide.
During the 2-second smoke generation, 35 ml
air was pushed through each of the 4 cigarettp,
yielding a total volume of 140 mi smoke introduced
into the 725-ml exposure chamber. A magnetic
stirrer provided instant mixing. The smoke dilution
factor was 725:140, or 5.2. The smoke concentration
inhaled by the hamsters was therefore apprommately
19.2% of that leaving the mouth end of the cigarettes.
In comparison, the average concentration of smoke
in the lungs of a human smoker is about 0.8%
(average puff volume, 35 ml; human functional
residual capacity, 3.5 liters; human tidal volume,
0.7 liters).
The smoke, seen through the transparent chamber,
took less than I second to traverse the 6 inches
between the mouth end of the cigarettes and the
hamstera' heads, which assured that the hamster
inhaled smoke no less fresh than that reaching the
human smoker.
Ckronec tnhdeeioa trudy-A preliminary study was
performed to determine a dose schedule at which
mortality would be negligible during the initial
months of the experiment. An exposure of approxi-
mately 5% of the median lethal dose, previously
determined under identiul e?cpoture conditions,
constituted the upper safe limit. This varied with the
strain of hamster. For obvious reasons, exposure
time suitable for the most sensitive strain was used
for all animals in the long-term study.
Accordingly, each hatnster was exposed twice a
day, 5 days/week, to 8 consecutive puff cycles from
the IRI Kentucky reference cigarettes. Puffs 1-8 from
the cigarettes were used; the resulting butt length was
slightly longer than 30 mm. The period of exposure
was 45-100 weeks.
Two simultaneous control groups were maintained
for each inbred strain. One group consisted of cage-
held animals of comparable age and initial weight
that were maintained simultaneously in the same
animal room and handled like all other hamsters with
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regard to weekly weighing, permanent wearina
felt-aluminum collars, etc.; however, they were
erposed to the smoking machines. The second con
group consisted of comparable hamsters exposec
"sham smoking" on the machines; i.e., the machh
were operated under standard conditions, except :
no cigarettes were inserted into them. For each of
2 lines, 102 hamsters were exposed to smoke, 60 %%
exposed to sham smoking, and 60 were cage-h.
controls. ,
Since it was impossible to obtain all 222 haras
re4uired for each tnbred line at the same ti:
animals of the proper initial age .and weight o.
introduced into the experiment in Lots of 6, stagge
over a period of 37 weeks. This procedure is poss:
only when homozygous animals of an inbred 1
are used, and provided that all facton such as weig
sex, and age are uniform. As far as possible, I loc
6 of each of the controls was started at the sarne ti:
as 2 lots (12 animals) of smoke-exposed hamsters.
ObteroationJ dnrins inho/ation rtrrdy.-Indi%idual bo
weights were recorded weekly throughout the r
pertiment. Carboxyhemoglobin levels were me:
ured by a cticromethod (6) after various periods
smoke exposure. Blood was obtitined by heart punctL
under light Nembutal anesthesia. To avoid possii
deleterious effects of heart puncture on hamsters in t
chronic inhalation study, carbo~cyhemoglobin leve
were determined in 6 male hamsters (100-120
body weight) of each inbred strain that were expos
to smoke for 1-3 weeks but were not included in t:
chronic inhalation study. Carboryhemoglobin leve
were also determined in a few randomly selecte
hamsters from the chronic study after 13-45 wee
of exposure.
Taminodron of ttudr.-Anitnals were killed whc
they appeared moribund; as judged by consiste:
weight loss or the appearance of edema. In additio:
some hamstrrs of all groups were killed at 45, 6
75, and 90 weeks. Survival time calculations we
corrected for the hamsters killed when not moribur.
Complete autopsies were performed. The enti
tYSpiratory tract and any other organs or tissu
grossly appearing abnormal were studied histolov
cally. Lungs were inflated and itxed in Tellyesniczk.
fluid in an apparatus devised by Dr. Sadamu Ist:
kawa (personal communication) that permits equ:
ibration between internal and external pulmona
prasure. The larynx was removed and &xed prior
connection of the trachea to the canoula feedir
the fixation fluid into the lung under a presaure
40 mm Hg. At the completion of fixation, the pressu.
was equalized at 10 mm Hg.
Organ weights of some hatnsten wcre determinec
Serum triglycerides [by the fluorometric techniqu
(7)] and virus profiles (by courtesy of Dr. Robert _
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were obtained trom, the Univenity of Kentucky Tobacco r'
Health Resrareh 1nstitute, Kenrucly Resc.vch Fouridauo'
Luington, Ky. Compoutioo of the rrference cigarctte I R I
12% moisture was as follo.n (5): flue-cured Iamina. 401'
Rue-cured ritem, 14.2%; Burley lamina, 24 9~,; Turki,h (..no
teaf), 11 6%. ; Maryland lamina, 1.1 :, glqcerw. 2 9^,; in`c
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.ESULTS
Mortality
'Mortality was .cry low in all groups until about
the 60th %.cck of the cxperiment (text-figs. I, 2),
at which time the animals' chronologic ages were ap-
proximately 73 weeks. Thereafter, mortality increased
rapidly in all groups, reaching 100% at about 100
weeks. Neither emolce exposure nor sham smoking
had a significant effect on mortality. There was no
difference in survival between the 2 strains.
Chan4.s in Body Weight (Tabla 1; Text-Figs. 3, 4)
In both hamster strains, individual body weights
were affected by smoke inhalation. The mere experi-
mental manipulations, such as sham-smoking con-
ditions and;or s!res,s, also changed the body weight.
Initial weight in both groups a%eraged 108 g. The
BIO 87.20 cage-held controls attained a final average
weight of 144.3 g, whereas the BIO 15.16 cage-held
controls attained only 125.0 g.
Tizt-nacsi 1.-Mortaliry of BIO 13.16 barrnmrs e:po.ed to
tmoke bom IRI etiuetua and of unespoaed eooteo4.
Tsxr-nceas 2.-`tortalitT of BIO 87.20 hamstes e:po.ed to
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Exposure to cigarette smoke reduced body weight
of both inbred strains by about 10 g during the first
2 weeks of treatment. Subsequently, weights increased
again, but somewhat more slowly in BIO 15.16 than
BIO 87.20 animals. Because of the low final weight
ofcage-held BIO 15.16 hamsters, the weight difference
between the controls and smoke-exposed hamsters
was much less in the BIO 15.16 line than in the BIO
87.20 line. Sham smoking produced body weight,
intermediate between those of the cage-held controls
and the smoke-exposed animals in line BIO 15.16;
it had no effect on body weight in line BIO 87.20.
It thus appears that the long-term response to
smoke inhalation, i.e., the failure of the smoke-
exposed animals to gain weight, was due largely
to direct effects of smoke inhalation rather than to
nonspecific stress.
Carbon Monoxide Content of Blood
Baseline levels of carboxyhemoglobin ranged from
about 0.1 to 0.5%. Immediately after exposure of
hamsters not previously inhaling smoke to a sequence
of 20-puff cycles, carbonherr.oglobin levels rose
20-40%. Within 4 hours after exposure, these high
levels fell to 4-10%'0. A second exposure on the same
ddy again raised the level to 30-36%. After two
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20-cycle exposures to cigarette smoke within 4-5
hours on the same day, and then 18-19 hours of
rest during the night, the carboxyhemoglobin re-
turned to near pretreatment levels in a1J instances.
From these results on animals not included in the
chronic inhalation study, exposure of hamsters to
cigarette smoke for much shorter time periods, i.e.,
to 8-puff cycles twice a day as in the chronic inhalation
experiment, may thus be assumed to cause no lasting
accumulation of carbon monoxide in the blood. This
was confirmed in 22 hamsters after 13-45 weeks in the
chronic inhalation study. Blood carboxyhemoglobin
measured on a Monday morning before the 6rst
exposure to smoke inhalation of the weeli ranged from
0.2to2.0%,,withatneanof0.6370.
Chanaes in Serum Triatyeortd. Levels
Serum triglyceride levels, determined in test and
control animals at week 45 of the experiment, ranged
from 145 to 222 mg/100 ml, with standard deviations
from 28 to 97 mg/100 ml. Because of these large in-
dividual standard deviations, the differences were far
from significant. Thus neither smoke exposure nor
sham smoking produced changes in serum triglycerides.
Virus Profiles
The virus profiles were determined at 45 weeks in
6 animals from each experimental group and in 6
young, untreated animals of each strain that corre-
sponded in weight and age to the test hamsters at the
beginning of the experiment. The data clearly showed
that the virus profile was not changed by smoke ex-
posure, sham smoking, or prolonged caging under the
conditions of the experiment.
Influence ef Smeke Espesu.e en Organ Wet9hts
Because of strain differences in body size (table 1)
and the weight changes produced by the experimental
procedures, abaoluu organ weights in these animals
were difficult to interpret. Therefore, only relative
organ weights were analyzed (tables 2-4). Weights
were tabulated only for the anianals killed, not for
those dying spontaneously. This was done because
changes in the respiratory tract were of the greatest
interest relative to smoke exposure, and inclusion of .
the lung weights of spontaneously dead hamsters
would have introduced a variable and unknown
amount of agonal pulmonary congestion and pul-
monary cdeasa into the averaga.
Relative weights of organs (tiver, spleen, kidneys,
adrenab, heart, or lungs) did not differ significantly
between anisnals of the 2 inbred strains at any of the
ages studied, as found by comparison with data for
cage-held controls. Relative organ weights tended to
increase with advancing age in experimental and
control groups. They also became more variable, as
evidenced by higher standard deviations in the older
animab.
The age-related increase in relative weight was
particularly marked in the kidneys of both inbred
strains and was caused by amyloid deposition. Renal
amyloidoais was, in fact, the leading cause of death
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97 57. 95/6) 330. 9(21. 65/7) 326. 5(26. 'S6/6 ) 4.67 3.13
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in the hamsters of this experiment. In the adreaals,
age-related weight increase was due variably to
arnyloidosis, hyperplasia of capsular cells, and
formation of adrenal tumors. The prevalence of these
changes precluded use of adrenal weight as a measure
of stress.
No weight changes in liver, spleen, kidneys, or
adrenals could be attributed to smoking.
In the BIO 87.20 hamuen during weeb 40-90 of
the experiment, both smoke exposure and kham
smoking reduced relative spleen weight signi£caady
(table 2). This difference, possibly representing a dis-
rolution of lymphocytes due to stress, disappeared in
very old hatnstera when intriruic diseases of the
spleen began to appear. No such effect was demon-
strated in the BIO 15.16 line.
Relative heart weights of hamsters exposed to smoke
for 40-60 weeks were markedly and significantly
greater in both strains than those of cage-held or
sham-smoked animals (table 3). In BIO 87.20 ham-
sters, the hearts of smoke-exposed aaimals were
significantly heavier than those of cage-held controls
after 60-75 weeks, but the difference disappeared as
the experiment progressed. In contmst, there were
many extremely large hearts in hamsters of the BIO
15.16 line after 90 weeks of smoke exposure, but
none in the control groups. This observation may
represent an important strain-liraited effect of smoke
exposure.
Lung weights showed no systemadc di.qerences be-
tween experimental and control animal+ of the BIO
15.16 line until after 90 weeks, when the lungs of the
smoke-exposed animals became significantly heavier
than those of the controls (table 4). In the BIO 87.20
hamsters, lung weights of smoke-exposed animals were
consistently higher than those of dte controls and by
90 weeks exceeded the weights of the cage-held con-
trols by about S0%,. Because of the large variability of
individual weights during the later part of the ex-
periment, the statistical significance of these differ-
ences is somewhat reduced. Strain-related diBerences
in lung histology will be described below.
Mlstepathrielia r1edingn
LaryrW
By far the most important findings in this experi-
ment occurred in the larynges, approximately two-
thirds of which were studied histologically. The
larynges of the last 49 surviving animals, including
34 BIO 87.20's and 15 BIO 15.16's, were transplanted
into hattater cheek pouches for an experiment which
will be reported separately. Among the smoke-
ezpaed hamstess, only 2 of 48 larynges in the BIO
15. 16 line (4%,) and 3 of 45 from the BIO 87.20 line
(7%) were regarded as histologically normal, as op-
posed to 68-90% of the larynges from the correspond-
ing controls (tables 5, 6).
Pathologie changes in the smoke-exposed hatasten
were all conPtned to the squamous{olurnaar juncuon
of the vocal cords and were dassified as follows:
Xype+p/aria was defuted as hyperplastic thickening of
the squamous epithelium with ac.anthosi+ and ould
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nuclear dysplasia. The basal layer remained intact
d fairly straight (figs. 1-3). This change was seen
-i0cyc of the larynges of smoke-exposed BIO 15.16
namsters and in 53% of the BIO 87.20 line, but in
none of the control animals (tables 5, 6).
Baial cell hjpoactioiry was defined as proliferation of
the squamous epithelium in which cells grew down
into the dermis, often in a reticular pattern. Nuclear
dysplasia and mitotic activiry tended to be more
intense than in simple hyperplasia (fig. 4). This type
of change was more f uent in BIO 15.16 (40%)
than in the BIO 87.2013%,) animals, and it was
absent in the controls. In many cases of this type of
change, the basement membrane of epidermis
appeared to be intact (figs. 5, 6). It sometimes
became very irregular, with apparently isolated cell
clumps in the dermis, a few suggesting lymphatic
invasion (figs. 7-10). In advanced stages, basal cell
hyperactivity was difficult to differentiate from early
invasive carcinoma; however, no distant metastases
were found in any animal. The advanced stages
classified as "severe basal cell hyperactivity" in
tables 5 and 6, and often indistinguishable from micro-
invasive cancer, occurred in 19% of the smoke-exposed
animals in the BIO 15.161ine, but in only 4% of those
of the BIO 87.20 line; they were absent in the
controls.
Small squamous popillomar similar to those occur-
ring in the trachea and bronchi were found in the
CIGARLTTL SNOICL INHAiATION IV INDRLD HAYSTLRS I - 1147
Lengtb of IVum- Vum.
Treatment group time on esperi- ber of ber of NPDt Hyper- Total Micro- Papil- Chronic SQua-
mentsl coodi- aaimaL larynses plau. BCH1 icva- loma iaDam- mous
tions (wk) autop- atudied tive mation metr
ued caacer plaaie
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi) (vii) (viii) (i:) (1) (si)
Tsats S.-Ai.tolopie J4ndineo in tM lorynpu of B10 18.18 Aumu(e+i
Number of animals wit.b
Smok~-espoaed..... 40-60.......... 7 S - 4 1 - - - -
-........... d1-7S.......... 17 7 1 3 3 - 1 2 2
"............ 78-90.......... 31 16 1 4 7 1 2 4 3
.............. >90....-..-... 29 20 - 8 8 8 4 1 3
.............. Subtotal...... 84 48(S7I 2(4) 19(40) 19(40) 9(19) 7(13) 7(1S) 8(17)
I
Sbamimoked_..... 40-60.......... 6 6 5
.............. a1-7S...----... s 4 1
" 76-90.......... 21 18 lb
.............. >90............ 10 8 8
............ Sabtot;L.... 42 36(88) 27(75) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 9(2S) 0(0)
Ca;e-beld......... 40-60 ......... 6
.............. 81-75: ------- 4
,.----------.. 76-90.------... 17
.............. >90 ........... 13
" .... 8ubtotaL.....
Tota1 pn atrain ..............
a
40
166
3
4
11
7
laryngeal epithelium of 25 ; of smoke-emposed ham-
sten and in 13% of the BIO 15.16 animals. Occa-
sionally, there was downgrowth of cells at the base of
papillomas (figs. 11, 12).
A few larynges of smoke-exposed hamsters also
showed chronic inflammation and/or squamous meta-
plasia of mucous glands (fig. 13). Chronic in9amma-
tion in a fet controls was associated with slight
epithelial thickening but never with true hyperplasia,
pseudoepitheliomatous change, or papilloma fotraa-
tion. Sham-smoked and cage-held controls did not
difier significantly in this respect.
Cwps
Histologic exatniaation of 90% of the lungs from
BIO 13.16 hamsters and all of those from the BIO
87.20 strain revealed clear-cut strain differences and
significant effects of smoke exposure (tables 7, 8).
Chrmpins oJmanophalu: Pulmonary tnacrophages in
both strains of hamsters formed small clumps within
the alveoli. This tendency was much greater in the
BIO 87.20 than in the BIO 15.16 strain, as seen from
a comparison of the cage-held control groups (44%
vs. 67,). It was accentuated by smoke exposure in
both strains (92% vs. 53ao, respectively). In neither
strain was the incidence of macrophage dumping
affected by sham smoking.
There were qualitative as well as quantitative
differences in macrophage clumping among the vari-
3
2
9
3
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1
2
3
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2
9
4
23163) 17(48) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 8(32) 0(0)
104(66J 46(42) 19(17) 19(17) 9(8) 7(6) 24(22) 8(7)
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C.Unu): 1111111 r ta PIwtlor nP
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1148
lttlNR1.D, NOMICRCM AND RVSStZLLD
TAxct 0-Riatolopic.findiepe ir t11e (eaynPa of 810 67.10 Aonutere
Number of animals with
Lenitb of Num- vum- ~~
Treatment group time on e:pen- ber of ber of NPD Hyper- Total -Micro- PapiJ- Chronie Sque
mental condi- animals larynjes pWi& BCH (nva- loma in8am- mot:
tioas (wk) autop- studied live matlon meta
sied cancer pLL3j:
ti) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (v!) (vii) (viii) (iX) (:) (xi)
Smoke-esposed..... 40-60.......... 8 7 7
" .....-.---
' 61-73.......... 23 16 2 9 s 3
~_.
_......... 76-90.......... 23 13 1 5 3 1 4 3
............. >90........... 31 9 3 1 1 4 4
.............. Subtotal-..... 87 45(S41 3(7) 24(53) 6(l3) 4(4) 11(24) 1(2) 7(16
Sbam-emoked...... 40-60.......... 7 S S
............ ..
.............. 61-75.......-..
76-90.......... 19
8 13 13 1
............ > 90........... 12 S 3 s 1
.............. Subtotal...... 44 30(68J 27(90) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 3(10) 1(3)
Cale-heid......... 40-60.......... 7
3 S
..-......-...- 61-75.......... 13 1 11 ?
..
............ 76-90.......... 20 14 10 4
..
............ > 90........... 8 7 2
............... Subtottl...... 48 39(81(
r 31(79)
.~..~ 0(0)
r 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 8(2l) 0(0)
Total per straia .............. 179 114(641 61(34) 24(2!) 6( 5) 2(Z) 11(10) 12(11) 8(7)
Bw taeioow lor IaOL ~.
T.u at T-Rtiuolep+e jindiapi in tM lwya of BIO 16.16 Amrut.*i`
Length of time Number Number
Treatment group on experimental of of lung
conditiona (Mk) anitnals eatnplM
auto~''' etudiod
eilO
(il (i!) (iii) (1V)
Number of anlmals wfth
;
Clumped Bron- Io- yleta-
NPD macro- chiolar Ectopic Eam- etatic
pbatn met.- boue mation tumor
plasi.
(v) (vi) (vii) (viii) (is) (:)
- -
Sm oBe-erpo.ed_..-..... 40-60...,.......... 7 7 2 4 - 2
" ............... 81-7b.............. 17 17 8 5 1 2 - 3
.......... .- 76-90.............. 31 29 6 18 4 2 1
................. > 90............... 29 24 S 13 2 9 4 2
'.... 9ubtotal......... 84 76(90j 41(28) 40(53) 3(4) 17(22) 6(8) 6(8)
Sbam4m ok.d....._.... 40-d0 .............. 6 6 4 - 1 -- - --
".....-.-. 61-TS .............. 5 5 1 - 1 1 1
.............. 76-90.............. 21 20 16 - 1 4 - -
................. > 90...............
10 9 3 - - 3 1 2
................. Subtotal......... 42 40(9SJ 23(S8) 0(0) 2(5) 8(20) 2(S) 3(8)
Ca=e-held ............. 40-60......... .--.. 6 6 5 - - ! - -
............... 61-75 .............. 4 4 2 - - 1 - 1
.. -
............. 76-90.............. 17 16 a - - 1
.. ::............. >90............... 13 8 a 2 - 2 - -
"............... SubtotaL.......... 40 34(85) 15(44) 2(8) 0(0) 6(18) 1(3) l(3)
Total per etrsin ...................... 166 1S0(90j S9(39) 44(18) S(3) 31(21) 9(6) 10(7)
Sw betma' erd t. hs1.1.
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a
8
19
23
30
LengtD ot time Number Nuntber \umber of animals nith
Treatment group on esperimental of of lung Clumped Bron- In. Nfeta-
conditioas (Rk) aaimaL samples \ PD macro- cbiolsr Ectopic Aam- static
.uto studied phages meta- bone mation tumor
sit~ plasie
(i) (li) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi) (vii) (.iu) (ix) (t)
I
7
19
6
12
CtOARETTi SHORL VIHALATfOY LV LINDRED HAlISTi1tS
TADLt 8-Aittofopie )lndinpi in (As lunps of B!0 97.90 Aarn+ters
Sm oketsposed___...... 40-60 ..............
................. 61-75..............
" .. 76-90 ..............
..:---------_-_- >90...............
................. SubtotaL.........
Shamem oked...-...... 40-60 ..............
-------------- 61-75..............
..
-______... 76-90..............
................. > 90...... _.......
8 8 -
23 23 3
23 23
1
31 31 -
87 87(100) 4(5)
7
19
6
12
6
6
" -__ Subtotal.......... 44 44(1001 12(27)
Cage-beld------------- 40-60..............
................. 61-75 ..............
................. 76-90 ..............
................. 1 90.._......-_----
7 7
13 13
20 20
8 8
' ___ SubtotaL......... 48
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2
4
22
6
4
2
80(92) 46(53) 10(11) 2(2)
7
3
10
1
4
3
S
4
2
5
2
1
20(45) 13(30)
11(25) 3(7)
1149
1
1
2(2)
1
2
3(7)
3 3 1 1 -
2 7 6 9 - 1
4 6 11 7 2 -
1 3 S 3 1 3
48(100110(21) 21(") 22(46) 20(42) 4(8) 4(8)
- Total perstrain ...................... 179 179(1001 26(15) 121(68) 81(45) 41(23) 9(5) 9(5)
Sn IsomsW Md t. rbY aL
ous groups. In hematoxylin and eosin-stained slides
of BIO 15.16 hamster lung from all groups and
BIO 87.20 hamster lung from the control groups, the
clumps consisted of comparatively few, small, loosely
packed taaaophages containing dark-brown to black
pigment (fig. 14). In lungs of smoke-exposed BIO
87.20 hatruters, the clumps were larger, more abun-
danc, and composed of very Large cells containing pale
gold pigment. These cells were frequeatly mixed with
polymorphonuciear leukocytes (fig. 15). Rare smoke-
exposed BIO 87.20 haauters not having such dumped
macrophages in their lungs were usually those found
dead of some intercurrent diaeasa
- Lfacrophages of both strains, both isolated cells
and those otturring in durops, characteristically gave
a posiuve Prussianblue reaction for iron. This was
intense in the small macrophages of all BIO 15-16
animaL and B1O 87.20 controls. It was weak in the
large macrophages of stnoetxDo.od BIO 87.20 ham-
sters; theae u1L also ap ared to contain yellowish
iron-negative pigment. Oociaional granules of black,
iron-negauve pigment consisteat with earbon were
found in a few macrophages.
Broncluolm nutcp/ana was defined as taetaplasia of
fla t alveolar epithelium into cdumnar epithelium of the
bronchiolar type (fig. 16). The si:ain differeace was
highly significant: Metaplasia occurred in nearly
half of all BIO 87.20 haeute::, but in lea than 5% of
the BIO 15.16 strain. In both strains, the appearance
of broncbiolar metaplasia was age related but was
not significantly affected by smoke expo.ure.
Fitoptc bonf fonnetron: Pulmonary parenehytna in
both strains contained small foci of ectopie bone not
associated with inRammation or other obvious disease
processes. These foci occurred in 18% of the cage- ,
held BIO 15.16 and 42% of the BIO 87.20 animals.
Incidence was not affected by experimental proce-
dures in the BIO 15.16 hamsters. It was reduced
by both smoking and sham smoking in the 87.20's.
A few lungs in both strains showed acute or chronic
pneumonitis or contained metastatic tumors of some
sort, usually. adrenal carcinoma, lymphoma, or leu-
kemic infiltrate. No differences in these parameters
could be ascribed to strain or to smoke exposure.
TracMa and ba+eAl
Abnormalities of the air passages were rare in all
groups. A few smalJ patches of squamous metuplasia
were seen in 5-10% of BIO 15.16 hamsters, in which
the incidence was not signifiuntly affected by smoke
exposure. In the cage-held BIO 87.20 anima)s,
squamous metaplasia was not seen in the trachea and
in only 4% of the bronchus specimens. In smoke-
exposed BIO 87.20 animals, these figures increased to
26 and 21 %,, respectively (figs. 17, 18).
No tumors of the air pasugea were found in control
animals of either strun. Three benign squamous
papillomas in the trachea were found in smoke-
exposed BIO 1 S.16 hamsters. Four benign squamous
papi)lomas were found in smoke-exposed BIO 87.20
hatnsters, 2 oecurrin6 ia the trachea and 2 in the
main bronchus (6gs. 19, 20).
NasoO(+arM+t
Cross-sections were taken of the naaopharyax and
adjacent structures of the head in all groups of
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ILRNItt.D, HOflatrAOtll, AND RVSSIttt.D
hamstert. Approximately half contained only notatal
tissues. The remainder showed various pathologte
procaoes including gingivitis, dental earies, ocular
tnflatnmation with phthisis bulbi, and thromboses of
orbital veins. None of these phenomena could be
related to smoke exposure.
Only 2 tumors were found in the nasopharynx,
both occurring in BIO 15.16 anitnals exposed to
smoke 60-75 weeks. One was an adenoid cystic tumor
believed to have originated from mucous glands
(fig. 21). The other was a fibrosarcoma that had ro-
duced numerous small pulmonary metastases (figs.
22,23).
Heart
The heart itself was not sectioned routinely in this
experiment. However, it was included with the lungs
of 20-25% of the animals. Of the cage-held control
BIO 15.16 hearts, 25% showed myocardial degenera-
tion as compared with 17% of the BIO 87.20 hearts.
This consisted of myolysis with (in the BIO 15.16
animals only) an abundant infiltration of lymphocytes.
Smoke exposure appeared to increase myocardial de-
generation in both strains, especially in the BIO
15.16 animals. However, the number of animals
examined was too small to. permit definitive eonclu-
sions (data not statistically significant).
Mural thrombi were seen in approximately one-
ftfth of the hearts of both strains. Incidence was not
affected by the experimental procedures.
Liver
The most frequent abnormality in the liven of
these hamstcn was cystic hyperplasis of the bile ducts,
in rare instances verging on cholangiocateinortu. This
change occurred after the 60th week of the experiment
and was more fre uent in the B10 87.20 (60%) than
in the BIO 15.16 ?17%,) aninlals. Other abnormalities
noted were not strain related and consisted of sporadic
infiltration with amyloid and leukemic material, fatty
metamorphosis, focal inflammation, and focal necrosis.
One primary hemattgiosarcoma of the liver was found
in a cage-held BIO 15.16 control. None of these
changes could be related to smoke exposure.
Spl..n
Approximately three-quarters of the spleens ex-
amined in both strains were histologically normal.
Lesions in the remainder included hetuangiomas,
lymphomatow or leukemic in6ltratey, and atnyloid.
None of these conditions was related to strain or to
smoke exposure.
Kidntys
Some renal amyioidosis was seen in 86%, of the
BIO 15.16 and 69%, of the BIO 87.20 hamsters. In
neither strain was it affected by smoke inhalation.
The only other renal pathology consisted of rare,
minute foci of calcification in a few hatnsters of
each strain.
Adr.na/s
The most frequent change observed in the adre:
of both strains was proliferation of capsular c-
This waQ reported previously in hamsters (8) anc
mice, where it wat called "A-B cell hyperplasia" 1
This proliferation, not affected by smoke expost.
was seen in 41,70 of BIO 15.16 and in 20% of B
87.20 hamsters. Of the BIO 15.16 hamsters, 14%, l
adrenal adenomas and 1%,, carcinomas, as compa:
with 13% with adenomas and S% with carcinomas
the BIO 87.20 animals. Rarely carcinomas met
tasized to the lungs. The occurrence of adrenal turac
was not related to smoke exposure. Of the animals
both straias, 5-10% exhibited adrenal amyloidosis.
DISCUSSION
The model system used by us- differs from tl:
reported by Dontenwill et al. (1) and Dontenwill (1
in several important respects in addition to our use
inbred hamsters. The composition of the 1 R 1 Ke
tucky reference cigarettes was different than that
Dontenwiil's cigarettes. In Dontenwill's study, hac
sters' bodies were enclosed in a tube and thus severe.
stressed; in ours they were notr Smoke exposure w:
continuous in Dontenwill's machine, intermittent :
ours, Concentration of inhaled smoke was about 6.71
in the German model and 20% in ours, and smok
was administered by different dosage schedules.
Nonetheless, both model systems permit the sarr.
major conelusions: Chronic exposure to cigarett
smoke produces severe hyperplastic and neoplasti
changes in the squamous epithelium of the hatastex larytu and is associated with decreased body
weight
In neither system did smoke exposure increase pro
liferative changes outside the respiratory tract or
increase the non-neoplastjc dcgenerative change
characteristic of aging hatnsten. (Our observations on
possible smoke-related changes in the heart are pres-
endy equivocal; further investigation is desirable.)
Chronic smoke exposure significantly reduced sur-
vival tirae in the Dontenwill model; no such effect
was seen in ours. This difference may be attributed
to the twofold higher carbon monoxide concentration
inhaled by Dontenwill's hamsters than by ours. In
faet, previous observadons of Donteawill (10) showed
a sustained increase in blood carboxyhemoglobin in his
model, whereas ours produced only transient increases.
Both systems produced no change in blood triglycer-
ides. In addition, we showed no change in virus
profile.
The po int of greatest practical importance to
emerge from our work is the striking differences among
various lines of hamsters with respect to susceptibility
to acute toxic eSecti of smoke and to hyperplastic
response of the larynx to smoke (3). Animals of the
inbred BIO IS.16 line have both the highest resistance
to smoke or nieotine toxicity and the greatest laryngeal
susceptibility-qualides greatly increasing the sensi-
tivity of the model. Further studies with larger num-
bers of animals will be necessary to ascertain the
signi5caace of the laryngeal changes in diSereat
straina.
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No tumors of the lung parenchytru after smoke
exposure were observed either by Dontenwill or by
us. We did not confirm the slightly significant increase
in adenomatoid lesions observed by Dontenwill. In
both model s)stemi, so-called "smoke cells" increased
in the alveoli after smoke exposure. The observation
that yellow iron-negative and alao black particles
occur in the macrophages suggests that the particulate
phase of smoke reached the alveolar wall to be taken
up by the macrophages. Use of the 2 inbred lines in
our experiment permitted the conclusion that these
cells are not directly related to hyperplastic changes
in the respiratory tract. They werr. much more abun-
dant in the 8IO 87.20 hamsters, which had the lower
!ncidence of hyperplastic lesions.
The tracheal and bronchial papillomas and the
nasopharyngeal tumors (one with clear-cut metas-
tises) obsened in our smoke-exposed hamsters resem-
ale tumors induced by others with nitrosamines (11)
:nd suggest the presence of this clan of substances in
::he smoke from our reference cigarettes. The only
r.itrosamine so far detected in cigarette smoke con-
:ertsates, however, is dimethy)nitrosamine (1?).
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