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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 6.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2007 May;133(5):495–502. doi: 10.1001/archotol.133.5.495

Table 1.

Summary population data. MTEC's transduced with retroviruses containing oncogenes with clonal populations obtained in lines that survived subcloning. E6 and E6/E7 conferred immortality; however, H-Ras was necessary for tumor growth in vivo.

Retrovirus PD time
(days)
Immortal % clones
immortal
AI Growth Growth in
vivo
oral flank
none 54 - 0/10 - nt 0/6
lxsn 53 - 0/10 - nt 0/6
ras 52 - 0/10 - nt 0/6
E6 12 + 10/10 + nt 0/6
E7 50 - * nt nt 0/6
E6/E7 12 + 10/10 + nt 0/6
E6+ras 12 + nt + nt 7/10
E6/E7+ras 12 + nt + 10/12 8/10

nt = “not tested.”

*

= cells did not survive selection.