To study the possibility of apoptosis of tumor cells induced by weak electromagnetic fields (EMFs) in vivo, mice were inoculated with Ehrlich ascites cells and exposed to a long-term electromagnetic field (1 mT, 700 KHz). During the treatment, growth curves of mice were measured and compared between exposed and sham-exposed mice. The results show that the growth curves of healthy controls agree...

Newborn rabbits were made immunologically tolerant to normal C3H mouse tissue and were subsequently immunized with the Ehrlich ascites tumor. Nonpretreated rab bits were also immunized with tumor. In addition, both tolerant and nonpretreated rabbits were given similar injections of normal tissue antigens. It wasfoundthat, in smallamounts,both tolerantand nontolerantanti-Ehrlich ascites tumor se...

It was found that Aspergillus sp. No. Y-8980 which was isolated from a soil sample collected at Yoron Island in Kagoshima Prefecture belonged to Aspergillus terreus group by morphological observation. The active substance produced by the strain was obtained with a high yield in sucrose-yeast extract medium and extracted by chloroform, ethyl acetate and n-butanol at pH 2.4 approximately 2.6 from...

from the well-established observation that the protein bound carbohydrate level of blood plasma is elevated in cancerous individuals (28) and the possibility that cancer cells may contribute carbohydrate-containing proteins to the circulation (2, 3, 12, 13). For initial studies we have selected Ehrlich ascites carcinoma cells and are using glucosarnine-'4C to label carbohydrate-containing macro...

Naturally occurring vinca alkaloids, vincristine and vinblastine, at micromolar concentrations enhanced the ornithine decarboxylase activity in a dose-response manner in primary cultures of Ehrlich ascites carcinoma cells. After 8 h of culture in the presence or absence of vinblastine, cycloheximide was added to the medium, a 4.5-fold increase in the half-life of the ornithine decarboxylase act...

A water-soluble nitrosourea, 3-[(4-amino-2-methyl-5-pyrimidinyl)methyl]-1-(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea hydrochloride (ACNU, NSC-245382), was tested for its antitumor activity against some kinds of transplantable mouse tumors. The compound was markedly active against myeloid leukemia C1498, plasmacytoma X5563, Ehrlich ascites carcinoma, and mammary tumor FM3A43, and moderately active against ma...

The Ehrlich ascites tumor, which has been subjected to prolonged selection for growth in allogeneic hosts, possesses powerful mechanisms for the suppression of antigens normally found on the cell surface. It has previously been shown (1, 2) that when cells in which surface antigens are fully expressed are fused with Ehrlich cells, the suppressive mechanisms of the latter continue to operate and...

Treatment of Ehrlich-ascites-carcinoma-bearing mice with methylglyoxal bis(guanylhydrazone) alone or in combination with 2-difluoromethylornithine greatly enhanced the transfer of intragastrically administered radioactive putrescine and cadaverine into the carcinoma cells. Difluoromethylornithine alone did not have any effect on the accumulation of intestine-derived diamines in the tumour cells...

3-Hydroxypy rid ine-2-carboxaldehyf le thiosemicarbazone (3-HP) has been shown to be active against leukemia L1210, Ehrlich ascites carcinoma, lym]>homa L5178Y, the Lewis lung carcinoma, and adenocarcinoma 755. 3-HP is active, in some in stances, by gavage and also by delayed treatment. 3-HP is a member of a broad class of a-(.Y)-heterocyclic carboxaldehyde thiosemicarbazones, several of which ...