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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 27.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Exp Metastasis. 2009 Mar 8;26(5):415–424. doi: 10.1007/s10585-009-9239-x

Figure 1. Experimental Timetable.

Figure 1

Nude mice were placed on either a low fat diet, a high linoleic diet (Safflower) or a high stearic acid diet (Stearate (A)) for 3 weeks prior to injection with cancer cells. Tumors were allowed to develop for 9 weeks and were removed. Four weeks post-tumor removal, animals were sacrificed and their lungs were analyzed for metastases. A fourth group of animals were placed on the high stearic acid diet (Stearate (B)) and were injected with cancer cells 3 weeks later. The tumors were allowed to grow to the size of the tumors in the low fat and safflower groups before removal. Due to variation within this stearate group, it was broken down into 3 smaller groups – B-i, B-ii, and B-iii – based on when the tumors were removed. After 4 weeks, animals were sacrificed and their lungs were analyzed for metastases.