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. 1984 Oct;50(4):479–482. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1984.204

Growth and differentiation of pluripotent embryonal carcinoma cells in the Snell dwarf mouse.

A W van der Kamp, S C van Buul-Offers, E J Roza-de Jongh, M Feijlbrief, J Branger, E van Rongen
PMCID: PMC1976895  PMID: 6534385

Abstract

To investigate the influence of hormones on the process of cellular differentiation the growth and differentiation of a transplantable tumour, induced by inoculation of pluripotent mouse embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells have been studied in athymic nude mice and, normal and hypopituitary Snell dwarf mice. All athymic nude mice developed tumours independent of the numbers of cells inoculated. In contrast, the tumour percentage in normal Snell mice was lower, showing a dose-dependent increase of takes. In dwarfs tumour percentage was comparable with that observed in normal Snell mice. The morphological differentiation of teratocarcinomas grown in athymic nude mice, normal and dwarfed Snell mice shows derivatives of all three germ layers next to undifferentiated embryonal carcinoma cells. This suggests that the pituitary hormonal deficiencies of the dwarfs (growth hormone, thyroid stimulating hormone and prolactin) did not influence the tumour induction nor the development of the different tissues present in this type of tumour.

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