Quantitative assessment of spontaneous lung metastases of human HT29 colon cancer cells transplanted into SCID mice.

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The number of spontaneous lung metastases of the human colon cancer cell line HT29 transplanted into SCID mice was quantified. The lungs were sliced, randomly distributed in agar blocks and the number of lung metastases was counted for each of 39 animals. A nearly exponential increase of metastases with weight of the tumor at the implantation site was observed. This suggests that a critical tumor weight for the...

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