Abstract
The HT29R human colon adenocarcinoma cell line has been used to investigate the problem of inter-tumour variability in the xenograft system and how this may affect the planning of chemotherapy experiments. Subcutaneous inoculation of 10(6) in vitro cells into immuno-suppressed mice yielded an 80% take rate of moderately poorly differentiated, mucin-secreting tumours with a mean doubling time of 6 days. Statistical estimates from experiments with this system demonstrated that whereas a delay of one doubling time in treated compared with control groups could be detected with relatively small animal numbers, 3 to 4 times as many animals were needed to detect a delay of half a doubling time. The use of 2 tumours per animal yielded the same results as one tumour per animal but reduced the number of animals needed to achieve the same degree of statistical significance.
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