Title : Dietary orotic acid enhances the incidence of gamma-glutamyltransferase positive foci in rat liver induced by chemical carcinogens.

Pub. Date : 1983 Dec

PMID : 6140086






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1 Dietary orotic acid enhances the incidence of gamma-glutamyltransferase positive foci in rat liver induced by chemical carcinogens. Orotic Acid gamma-glutamyltransferase 1 Rattus norvegicus
2 Feeding male Fischer F-344 rats for 5 weeks a diet containing 1% orotic acid, a precursor for pyrimidine nucleotide biosynthesis, resulted in an increased incidence of gamma-glutamyltransferase (EC 2.3.2.2) positive foci induced by chemical carcinogens including 1,2-dimethylhydrazine, diethylnitrosamine, benzo[a]pyrene, and aflatoxin B1. Orotic Acid gamma-glutamyltransferase 1 Rattus norvegicus
3 Some of the possible mechanisms by which orotic acid enhances the incidence of gamma-glutamyltransferase positive foci by carcinogens are discussed. Orotic Acid gamma-glutamyltransferase 1 Rattus norvegicus