IMMUNOGENICITY OF CHEMICALLY-INDUCED MURINE COLON CANCERS

  • 1 January 1979
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 39  (4) , 1174-1179
Abstract
The antigenicity and immunogenicity of 3 colorectal carcinomas induced in BALB/c mice by 1,2-dimethylhydrazine or N-methyl-N-nitrosourethan were studied. All tumors were readily transplantable. Of these tumors, 2 metastasized when transplants reached sufficient size. All tumors were immunogenic in the strain of origin, and all tumors contain unique tumor-specific transplantation antigens in cross-protection experiments. The use of these tumors as an animal model for studies of adjuvant immunotherapy and chemoimmunotherapy is suggested.