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. 2010 Jun 1;103(1):61–72. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605699

Figure 1.

Figure 1

(A) Pathological pattern of the peritoneum 20 days after OVCAR-3WT implantation. Nude mice bearing OVCAR-3 macroscopic ascites were treated with vehicle (A1) or trastuzumab at a dose of 150 μg ml per day (A2) administered by i.p. route for 72 h. Naive nude mice were i.p. injected once a day for 3 days with 1 ml of either RPMI-1640 (A3 control group) or the 24 h serum-free cleared supernatant collected from OVCAR-3 cells in culture (A4). Mice were killed and the peritonea were collected and formalin fixed. Microscopic examination was performed and pictures were taken. (B) Concentrations of 99mTc-DTPA over time in the bladder: peritoneal permeability. 99mTc-DTPA appeared in the bladder more intensively in treated animals compared with the untreated group. Arbitrary units express the 99mTc-DTPA intensity detection in the region of interest (ROI) of the bladder (shortened by ‘B’ and by ‘P’ for the peritoneum:). *P<0.05. Student's t-test compared untreated group (control-ascites) with trastuzumab (TZ) treatment groups.