Growth of Primary Plasmacytomas in the Mineral Oil-Conditioned Peritoneal Environment2

1 July 1972

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Vol. 49 (1) , 305-308
https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/49.1.305

Abstract

Ascites cells from 15 primary BALB/c plasmacytomas were transplanted intraperitoneally into normal or mineral oil-treated BALB/c mice; 15 of the tumors grew within 57 days in the mineral oil. treated mice. Within the same period only 3 of the tumors grew in normal mice.

Keywords

MINERALS
PLASMACYTOMA
CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY)
PERITONEUM
MICE
NEOPLASMS
ASCITES
INBRED BALB C
MINERAL OIL