Abstract
In the liver, kidney and duodenum of nude mice with xenografts of two human pancreatic adenocarcinomas differing in growth rate, catalase activity was assayed and peroxisomes were studied using catalase cytochemistry and light and electron microscopy. Hepatic and duodenal catalase activity were significantly decreased in tumour-bearing mice. Renal catalase activity was unchanged. At light microscopic level, a decrease in peroxisomal staining was evident in all duodenums and most livers of tumour-bearing mice. Only minor changes were observed in the kidneys. Ultrastructural morphometry of the hepatocellular peroxisomes revealed a decrease in size, volume density and surface density only in mice with fast-growing xenografts. These observations indicate that the two pancreatic adenocarcinomas exerted a different effect on the hepatic peroxisomes, and that catalase activity and peroxisomes in liver and duodenum are more affected than in kidney.
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