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Here, the hypothesis that specific intestinal bacteria promote liver cancer was tested in chemical and viral transgenic mouse models.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      <jats:italic>Helicobacter<\/jats:italic>\n                      -free C3H\/HeN mice were inoculated with AFB1 and\/or\n                      <jats:italic>Helicobacter hepaticus<\/jats:italic>\n                      . The incidence, multiplicity and surface area of liver tumours were quantitated at 40 weeks. Molecular pathways involved in tumourigenesis were analysed by microarray, quantitative real-time PCR, liquid chromatography\/mass spectrometry, ELISA, western blot and immunohistochemistry. In a separate experiment, C57BL\/6 FL-N\/35 mice harbouring a full-length hepatitis C virus (HCV) transgene were crossed with C3H\/HeN mice and cancer rates compared between offspring with and without\n                      <jats:italic>H hepaticus<\/jats:italic>\n                      .\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Intestinal colonisation by\n                      <jats:italic>H hepaticus<\/jats:italic>\n                      was sufficient to promote aflatoxin- and HCV transgene-induced HCC. Neither bacterial translocation to the liver nor induction of hepatitis was necessary. From its preferred niche in the intestinal mucus layer,\n                      <jats:italic>H hepaticus<\/jats:italic>\n                      activated nuclear factor-\u03baB (NF-\u03baB)-regulated networks associated with innate and T helper 1 (Th1)-type adaptive immunity both in the lower bowel and liver. Biomarkers indicative of tumour progression included hepatocyte turnover, Wnt\/\u03b2-catenin activation and oxidative injury with decreased phagocytic clearance of damaged cells.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Enteric microbiota define HCC risk in mice exposed to carcinogenic chemicals or hepatitis virus transgenes. 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