[Effects of ethanol on metastasis of Lewis lung carcinoma in male mice with different social states].

The aim of this work was to study the effect of ethanol on experimental metastasis of Lewis lung carcinoma in male mice in positive or negative emotional states. Sensory contact model was used for generating animals with repeated experience of social victories or defeats. Tumor cells were injected into the tail vein after 20 days of agonistic interactions, and the number of metastases in the lung was calculated 16 days later. Group-housed mice were used as the controls. Mice of all experimental groups were chronically treated with ethanol (20%, 2 ml/kg of weight, i.p.) and saline during 7 days starting with the day of tumor cells injections. The experimental metastasis was shown to develop differently in mice with opposing social experience: saline-treated winners had significantly less metastases in the lung than the saline-treated losers. Chronic ethanol injections decreased the number of metastases in the losers, increased it in the winners and did not affect the controls. The results obtained indicate that effects if ethanol on Lewis lung carcinoma metastasis depend on psychoemotional status in male mice.