EFFECT OF ANTIFIBRINOLYSIS TREATMENT ON HUMAN CANCER IN NUDE-MICE

  • 1 January 1982
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 2  (6) , 339-343
Abstract
The effect of tranexamic acid on the growth of 3 human tumor cell lines (lung squamous cell carcinoma QG-56, lung adenocarcinoma PC-12 and ovarian carcinoma OC-1) was investigated in vitro and in vivo in nude mice. Tranexamic acid exhibited no direct cytotoxicity in vitro, but it inhibited the growth of the 3 cell lines as tumors in nude mice. Prominent deposition of fibrin or fibrinogen around tumor cells at the advancing border was observed only in the tumors of treated animals.