title: Induction and transplantation of murine skin cancers induced by methoxsalen plus ultraviolet (320-400 nm) radiation.
abstract: Properties of skin tumors resulting from treatment of mice with ip methoxsalen plus UVA (320-400 nm) radiation (PUVA) were compared to those of skin tumors induced by UVB (280-320 nm) radiation. Repeated treatment of C3H/HeN murine mammary tumor virus-negative (C3H-) mice with PUVA produced both fibrosarcomas and squamous carcinomas that were indistinguishable morphologically from UVB-induced tumors. Fragments of 12 primary PUVA-induced tumors were transplanted into normal and immunosuppressed syngeneic recipients, and all grew progressively. In contrast, 19 primary tumors induced by repeated exposure of C3H- mice to UVB grew only in the immunosuppressed mice and not in the normal recipients. The growth of graded doses of cells from 5 PUVA-induced tumors was compared in normal and UVB-irradiated recipients. No preferential growth in UVB-irradiated mice was observed, even though this is characteristic of UVB-induced tumors. Thus PUVA-induced tumors do not appear to have the same antigenic properties as UVB-induced tumors.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm / Q000276:immunology; D005260:Female; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D009374:Neoplasms, Experimental / Q000209:etiology / Q000276:immunology; D011701:PUVA Therapy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D010778:Photochemotherapy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D014466:Ultraviolet Rays; D014916:Whole-Body Irradiation
chemical_list: D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm