Effects of long term feeding of raw soya bean flour on virus- induced pancreatic carcinogenesis in guinea fowl

article
The effects of a diet enriched with 25% raw soya bean flour (RSF) on the pancreas and on the avian retrovirus Pts 56-induced pancreatic carcinogenesis in guinea fowl were studied. It has been shown that prolonged RSF feeding of new-hatched virus-infected and uninfected guinea fowl-poults induced enlargement of the pancreas, which was less pronounced when administration of the RSF supplemented diet started at the age of 75 days. Time-dependent multifocal inter- and intralobular hyperplasia of pleomorphic ducts lined by mucin-producing epithelium in the exocrine pancreas of virus-infected guinea fowls fed a RSF supplemented diet was regularly observed. Enlargement of virus-induced ductular neoplasms has been shown only after simultaneous RSF and virus administration. Copyright (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd.
TNO Identifier
234924
ISSN
03043835
Source
Cancer Letters, 135(2), pp. 195-202.
Pages
195-202
Files
To receive the publication files, please send an e-mail request to TNO Repository.