Cell death and regenerative proliferation pathways in hepatocellular carcinoma: The effect of furan on B6C3F1 mouse global gene expression in liver. Mus musculus

Furan is a mouse and rat hepatocarcinogen. We sought to determine the dose-dependent changes in gene expression upon exposure of B6C3F1 mice to furan in order to better understand furan’s mode of action. Adult female B6C3F1 mice were exposed to 1, 2, 4 or 8 mg/kg bw furan or vehicle control (corn oil) for three weeks and sacrificed four hours after the final exposure. Overall design: In this study we examined the transcriptional response in liver tissue of female B6C3F1 mice exposed to furan for 3 weeks at four different doses: 1, 2, 4 or 8 mg/kg bw furan (or vehicle control) and sacrificed four hours after the final exposure. Each dose group had 4-5 biological replicates. There were a total of 25 samples included in the final analysis. We used a two-colour reference design and SurePrint G3 Mouse GE 8x60K microarrays (Agilent).