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Six human carcinoma xenografts serially transplanted into nude mice were used for the study of chemosensitivity and cell kinetics. Three gastric carcinomas (St-4, St-40 and H-111), two colon carcinomas (Co-3 and Co-4) and one breast carcinoma (MX-1) were inoculated into the subcutaneous tissue of BALB/cA nude mice. The maximum tolerable doses of mitomycin C (MMC), adriamycin (ADM), cyclophosphamide (CPA) and 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) were administered when the tumor weights reached 100-300 mg. The response rates of the tumor to these drugs were found to be 3/6 for MMC, 2/6 for 5-FU and 1/6 for ADM and CPA. Percent labeled mitosis curves obtained from 3H-thymidine pulse labeling were analyzed by the method of Quastler and Sherman. It was found that the antitumor effect of MMC was closely correlated with the growth fractions of the tumors (r = -0.98, P less than 0.001), and it appeared that the tumor cells were more sensitive to MMC in the resting stages during the proliferating phase than in the other cell cycle phases. Cell kinetics is considered to be an important factor in determining chemosensitivity, and the system of human tumor xenografts-nude mice seems to be a suitable experimental model for investigating the correlation between cell kinetics and chemosensitivity in vivo.
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