Development of fewer tumor colonies in lungs of athymic nude mice after intravenous injection of tumor cells.
The formation of tumor colonies was compared in the lungs of athymic nude and normal littermate mice after an iv injection of transplantable syngeneic tumor cells. Each of 5 tumors tested formed fewer colonies in the lungs of nude recepients.
D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis / Q000276:immunology; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D009360:Neoplastic Cells, Circulating