Limiting oxidative DNA damage reduces microbe-induced colitis-associated colorectal cancer

oleh: Thergiory Irrazabal, Bhupesh K. Thakur, Mingsong Kang, Yann Malaise, Catherine Streutker, Erin O. Y. Wong, Julia Copeland, Robert Gryfe, David S. Guttman, William W. Navarre, Alberto Martin

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2020-04-01

Deskripsi

It is unclear how microbial-induced inflammation promotes neoplastic transformation in colitis-associated cancer (CAC). Here, the authors use models of CAC to show that inflammation induces 8-oxoguanine lesions in DNA, and that antioxidants can reduce these DNA lesions as well as CAC.