A histopathological analysis of spontaneous neoplastic and non-neoplastic lesions in aged male RccHan:WIST rats. 2020

Motoki Hojo, and Yoshimitsu Sakamoto, and Ai Maeno, and Kuniaki Tayama, and Yukie Tada, and Katsuhiro Yuzawa, and Hiroshi Ando, and Yoshikazu Kubo, and Akemichi Nagasawa, and Kazuyoshi Tanaka, and Norio Yano, and Fujifumi Kaihoko, and Yuko Hasegawa, and Toshinari Suzuki, and Akiko Inomata, and Takako Moriyasu, and Katsuhiro Miyajima, and Dai Nakae
Department of Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health, 3-24-1 Hyakunincho, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-0073, Japan.

Histopathological information about spontaneous lesions in aged Hannover Wistar rats is limited. In this study, we describe spontaneous lesions found in 39 male RccHan:WIST rats used as a control in a carcinogenicity study. Neoplastic lesions were frequently seen in the endocrine system, such as pituitary adenomas in the pars distalis. This strain exhibited a high incidence of thymoma (10.3%), compared to other strains. We encountered an oligodendroglioma, a pituitary adenoma of the pars intermedia, and a prostate adenocarcinoma, which are comparatively rare in rats. While the variety and incidence of non-neoplastic lesions were similar to those in other strains, several interesting lesions occurred with relatively high incidence, including "harderianization" of the extraorbital lacrimal gland, common bile duct ectasia, and hyperplasia of pulmonary endocrine cells in the lung. Furthermore, comparative analyses demonstrated that the severity of chronic progressive nephropathy and murine progressive cardiomyopathy in RccHan:WIST rats was less than that in F344 rats.

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