title: Development of fewer tumor colonies in lungs of athymic nude mice after intravenous injection of tumor cells.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: 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