| Literature DB >> 1506264 |
S Ishihara1, N Tachibana, A Okayama, K Murai, K Tsuda, N Mueller.
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To develop an experimental model of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma in small animals, severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mice treated with anti-asialo GM-1 antibody were inoculated with MT-2 cells, a cell line transformed by the human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV-I). Three mice injected with 4 x 10(7) cells subcutaneously or intramuscularly developed tumors at or near inoculation sites. Immunofluorescent antibody (IFA) staining for HTLV-I structural protein, p19, revealed the specific antigen in the cytoplasm of most cells from tumors and the DNA signals of HTLV-I proviral DNA were also positive in cellular DNA by polymerase chain reaction assay with HTLV-I tax gene primers, SK43/SK44. The MT-2 cells did not invade in mouse organs.Entities:
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Year: 1992 PMID: 1506264 PMCID: PMC5918837 DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.1992.tb00108.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Jpn J Cancer Res ISSN: 0910-5050